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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Feeding Ghosts won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir, the National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize, and the Libby Award for Best Graphic Novel. An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in her family. Tessa's grandmother, Sun Yi, was a Shanghai journalist swept up by the turmoil of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong, she wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival—then promptly had a mental breakdown from which she never recovered. Growing up with Sun Yi, Tessa watches both her mother and grandmother struggle beneath the weight of unexamined trauma and mental illness, and bolts to the most remote corners of the globe. But once she turns thirty, roaming begins to feel less like freedom and more like running away. Feeding Ghosts is Tessa's homecoming, a vivid, heartbreaking journey into history that exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, and the love that holds them together.

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Publisher
MCD
Year
2024
ISBN-13
9780374615185
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Family and intergenerational traumaChinese history and exileMental illness and identity

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