Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

(W/A) Tessa Hulls. In this evocative* genre-defying graphic memoir* Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women: 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 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.