Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir

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

Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--

Record details

ISBN: 0374601658
ISBN: 9780374601652
Physical Description: 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 20 cm
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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.