Name: Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Price: 647.00 ZAR
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Author: Tessa Hulls
ISBN: 9780374601652

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Physical Book

Author

Tessa Hulls

Publisher

Mcd

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780374601652

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls (Author) · Mcd · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir "

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: 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 eight years of government harassment, she fled to Hong Kong with her daughter. Upon arrival, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival, used the proceeds to put Rose in an elite boarding school--and promptly had a breakdown that left her committed to a mental institution. Rose eventually came to the United States on a scholarship and brought Sun Yi to live with her. Tessa watched 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 left home and traveled to the farthest-flung corners of the globe (Antarctica). But at the age of thirty, it starts to feel less like freedom and more like running away, and she returns home to face the history that shaped her family. Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is 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.

Tessa Hulls

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Tessa Hulls is an American artist, writer, and illustrator born in 1984, known for her multidisciplinary approach that combines art, history, and graphic narrative. She grew up in Northern California and has lived in various places, including Seattle and Juneau, Alaska, where she currently resides. Her work focuses on exploring family history and generational trauma, especially through the experiences of the women in her maternal lineage

Her most notable work is Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (2024). This book has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2025, becoming the second graphic novel to receive this recognition after Art Spiegelman's Maus. Additionally, it has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle. The graphic novel tells the story of three generations of Chinese women: Hulls' grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and the author herself, addressing themes such as exile, mental illness, and cultural identity. The work has been praised for its emotional depth and innovative use of the graphic medium to tell an intimate and universal story

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