Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir / Tessa Hulls.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 20 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374601652
- 0374601658
- Hulls, Tessa, 1984- -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hulls, Rose, 1950- -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Sun, Yi, 1927-2012 -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Chinese Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Generational trauma -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Mothers and daughters -- China -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Mental illness -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Sun, Yi, 1927-2012. Hong se Shanghai ba nian
- China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Shanghai (China) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- California, Northern -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Graphic Novel | New | HULLS, T. H914 | Checked out | 06/10/2024 | 33111011336621 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 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 mental breakdown. 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, traveling to the farthest corners of the globe. At age thirty, it started to feel less like freedom and more like running away, so Tessa returned 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
"Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"-- Provided by publisher.