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ISBN10: 0593230981
ISBN13: 9780593230985
Publisher: One World
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593230985
Publisher: One World
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
This powerful (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you've closed its covers. Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and tenderness in . . . Fung's elegant storytelling.--The New York Times Book Review
How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong astronaut fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings. Turning to her mother and grandmother for answers, she discovers her own life refracted brightly in theirs. Buoyant and heartbreaking, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family. Ghost Forest is the tender/funny book we can all appreciate after a hellish year.--Literary Hub
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