A young adult novel recounting the devastation of a victim of Japanese military sexual slavery.

Grandma Chun-ja is dead. Yu-ri and her family are shocked and confused by the sudden news, three years after Grandma Chun-ja had disappeared from their lives. Why had the news come from the House of Sharing, a shelter for victims of Japanese military sexual slavery? What was the secret that Grandma Chun-ja had hidden her entire life, even from her family? What really happened on that spring day in 1937, when 13-year-old Chun-ja hopped on a truck she thought was headed to a paying job at a textile factory?

Many are familiar with the history of the "comfort women," the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, but few fully understand exactly why and how the girls came to be "comfort women," the scope of the assault they endured at the "comfort stations" set up throughout regions colonized by Japan, and how they lived out their lives after they returned to Korea post-liberation. 'Trampled Blossoms' is an honest and vivid depiction of the victims' accounts of sexual slavery under the Japanese military.