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Feeding Ghosts
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
11 posts | 5 read | 2 reading | 5 to read
Persepolis meets Crying in H Mart in this astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir of three generations of women, exploring love, grief, exile, identity, and forgiveness. In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women: her grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory in China. 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’s homecoming, a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of modern 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.
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charl08
charl08
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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Mehso-so

Interesting look at the author's family history, heavily affected by mental illness.

For me, it was overlong, but judging from the comments on here this is a minority opinion!

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charl08
charl08
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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...I made books my world.

(Name those books...)

tpixie Lovely! the little prince, the Secret Garden, a little princess, Edward Edgar booked The Time Garden , A wrinkle in Time, the Phantom tollbooth , Narnia, The Saturdays, Eleanor Estes books- eg The Moffats 2d
tpixie ( those are my books, not the illustrated books!) 2d
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charl08
charl08
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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"But the craziness was starting to get really bad.... She kept thinking people were chasing us..."

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charl08
charl08
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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...the rulers would certainly have no reason to place blame upon me.

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charl08
charl08
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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Long ago, something happened and she lost her mind...

JulietteReadsALot It's such an impactful graphic memoir. I was really impressed by how the author managed to put all the different elements together so well. 4d
Suet624 Oh wow. 3d
PurpleyPumpkin I‘m currently reading this and it‘s so impactful. I borrowed an ecopy from my library and couldn‘t finish it on time. But I was enjoying it so much that I ended up buying a physical copy instead of waiting to borrow it again. So glad I did! 3d
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JulietteReadsALot
JulietteReadsALot
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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Pickpick

Excellent graphic memoir.
Tessa Hulls did a great job retracing her family's history and organizing this book so readers could get a thorough picture of her family history. How the persecutions suffered in China by her grandma made her lose grip with reality, how her grandma's mental illness affected her mother, and how her mother's experience having to take care of her grandma had a bearing on her parenting, and their relationship.

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jlhammar
jlhammar
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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Pickpick

Just wow. One of the best graphic memoirs I‘ve ever read. Not to be missed!

Soubhiville Oh @Eyelit , maybe you want to check this out? 11mo
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Lindy
Lindy
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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In this Friday Reads edition on booktube: fiction & nonfiction in audio + a graphic memoir, & why I only read 3 books (crafting, cooking and sporting content)

https://youtu.be/TcXpA7Tqpgg

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jlhammar
jlhammar
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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#bookmail! Tagged and The Anomaly are for book club. River for my #WomensPrize reading. And Nightwatching just because - sounds like a page-turner!

Tamra I love book mail days. 💙 14mo
marleed Night Watching won Jimmy Fallen‘s MarchMadness book game to become his summer bookclub read! 14mo
jlhammar @marleed I‘ll have to watch when he has the author on. I just read that Fallon picking the book led it to jump from No. 20,143 on Amazon to No. 46 - wow! 14mo
marleed @jlhammar OMG! Oh and hey, as I was reading Long Island I was thinking it surprised me the book hadn‘t received more buzz. And because my internet connection seems to even hear my inner thoughts, I open Instagram and it‘s Oprah‘s new Bookclub pick! 14mo
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shawnmooney
shawnmooney
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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Pickpick

https://youtu.be/h_j0PUf9jW8?si=hnvAnm0oyZJkT8ae

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127282542-feeding-ghosts

vivastory I heard an interview with the author this morning & thought that this sounded terrific 1y
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Twocougs
Twocougs
Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls
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Pickpick

Wow, this is one of the most honest, intense, and powerful books I have ever read. The story of how a woman from China, her daughter and granddaughter are all connected through trauma. Tessa Hulls‘ story of her family‘s history should be read often and win every award possible!

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