Justice: A Tale of the Nepali Civil War

This poignant graphic novel brings to life, vividly, the journey of a young woman to reclaim the traumatic landscape of her past.

"It was a simple life; a peaceful life," narrator Tara muses in Ram Khatri's pained, humane graphic novel. "At least that's what I thought in my childhood innocence." Justice chronicles, from young Tara's perspective, the end of that innocence, which comes to her Nepali family farm in the form of war.

First, in the early 2000s, her nation is torn between Maoist rev...