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family
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Product details
- ISBN 9781250371768
- Weight: 804g
- Dimensions: 233 x 191mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is Tessa 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 is an artist, writer, and adventurer whose restlessness has carried her to all seven continents. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, Adventure Journal, and The Rumpus, and in solo museum shows commissioned by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and the Wing Luke Museum. She is an alumna of Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Storyknife, and Ucross, and received the Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. Feeding Ghosts is her first book.
