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Chow, Kat.
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Chow, Kat -- Childhood and youth.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Chinese American families -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Grief -- Biography.
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Chow, Kat.
Chow, Kat -- Childhood and youth.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Chinese American families -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Grief -- Biography.
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Seeing ghosts : a memoir /
Kat
Chow
.
by
Chow
,
Kat
.
Grand Central Publishing, 2021.
Call #:
973.04951 C552s
Subjects
Chow
,
Kat
-- Childhood and youth.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Chinese American families -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Grief -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781538716328 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
359 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"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. Born two years after her parents' only son died just hours after his birth,
Kat
Chow
became unusually fixated with death. She worried constantly about her parents dying -- especially her mother. One morning, when
Kat
was nine, her mother, a vivacious and mischievous woman, casually made a morbid joke: When she eventually dies, she said laughing, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in
Kat
's future apartment in order to always watch over her. Four years later when her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer,
Kat
, her two older sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt,
Kat
weaves together what is part ghost story and part excavation of her family's history of loss spanning three generations and their immigration from China and Hong Kong to America and Cuba. This redemptive coming-of-age story uncovers the uncanny parallels in
Kat
's lineage, including the strength of sisterhood and the complicated duty of looking after parents, even after death. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to claim and tell your family's story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? What do we owe to our families in our grief, and how does it shape us? In order to answer these questions and to understand her family's ghosts,
Kat
unearths their sorrow and challenges the power structures of race, class, and gender. The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of grief and the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become under the specter of loss."--Publisher.
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Memoirs.
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