For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief and the search for meaning from a singular new talent as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family.
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying—especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her.
After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family’s story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss.
0 有用 fugue 2022-04-05 13:12:58
A little disappointing. Good bit: how her boyfriend bailed her father out of jail after a clash with the police (or really, being racially profiled and violently arrested) and then her father asked he... A little disappointing. Good bit: how her boyfriend bailed her father out of jail after a clash with the police (or really, being racially profiled and violently arrested) and then her father asked her (white) boyfriend to get grocery and cook with him because it happened to be lunar new year. | still good to have more asian diaspora writers tho. (展开)
0 有用 Y门食客 2021-12-22 07:36:49
作者的书写没有打穿与我这个读者之间的壁垒,无法与之共情。
0 有用 califlo 2021-11-29 10:42:12
Navigating grief as a Chinese-American family.
0 有用 上来喘口气 2024-02-07 23:49:58 浙江
与失去亲人的伤痛的漫长的和解,可能会漫长到贯穿几乎是一整个的人生。共情了。
0 有用 J 2022-12-30 21:41:54 美国
Ok book
0 有用 上来喘口气 2024-02-07 23:49:58 浙江
与失去亲人的伤痛的漫长的和解,可能会漫长到贯穿几乎是一整个的人生。共情了。
0 有用 J 2022-12-30 21:41:54 美国
Ok book
0 有用 fugue 2022-04-05 13:12:58
A little disappointing. Good bit: how her boyfriend bailed her father out of jail after a clash with the police (or really, being racially profiled and violently arrested) and then her father asked he... A little disappointing. Good bit: how her boyfriend bailed her father out of jail after a clash with the police (or really, being racially profiled and violently arrested) and then her father asked her (white) boyfriend to get grocery and cook with him because it happened to be lunar new year. | still good to have more asian diaspora writers tho. (展开)
0 有用 Y门食客 2021-12-22 07:36:49
作者的书写没有打穿与我这个读者之间的壁垒,无法与之共情。
0 有用 califlo 2021-11-29 10:42:12
Navigating grief as a Chinese-American family.