Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir

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Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir / Tessa Hulls.

Hulls, Tessa, 1984- (author,, artist.).

Summary:

"In this evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong with her young daughter, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival -- then promptly had a breakdown that left her committed to a mental institution. Growing up, Tessa watches her mother care for Sun Yi, both of them struggling under the weight of Sun Yi's unexamined trauma and mental illness. Vowing to escape her mother's smothering fear, Tessa leaves home and travels to the farthest, most remote corners of the globe. But once she turns thirty, her roaming begins to feel less like freedom and more like running away, so she returns to face the history that shaped her family. Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is Tessa Hulls's homecoming, a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of Chinese history. By turns fascinating and heartbreaking, inventive and poignant, Feeding Ghosts exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, and the love that holds them together" -- Jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374601652
ISBN: 0374601658
ISBN: 9781250371768
ISBN: 1250371767
Physical Description: 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-382).
Formatted Contents Note:: Prologue: Water has a perfect memory : near Shanghai 2016 -- Part 1. Diving into the wreck : Suzhou 1927-1948 -- Part 2. The collapse of one mythology : Shanghai 1949-1950 -- Part 3. The possibility of escape : Shanghai 1950-1957 -- Part 4. Like bread in our children's mouths : Hong Kong 1957-1960 -- Part 5. Unable to mourn a body : Hong Kong 1960-1970 -- Part 6. The invisible world : Northern California 1970-1997 -- Part 7. The time when we were not : Northern California 1994-2002 -- Part 8. Burning down the house : every frontier I could find 2002-2015 -- Part 9. The creation of home : roaming 2015-2022 -- Epilogue: Touching us back from extinction : the ocean the present.
Awards Note:: Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography, Winner, 2025

National Book Critics Circle, John Leonard Award, 2024