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/100
I Index Overall Rating
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39/100Critics
77/100Scholars
Author:
Kat Chow
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Date:
August 24, 2021
After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
What The Reviewers Say
... Chow’s memoir is a memorial to her mother delivered in a graceful, captivating voice. Like several acts of tribute to the dead in this book about grief and family, immigration and ancestors, it’s accomplished long after the loss that it marks.
The book reads like a memory album, of enduring images of Chow's mother and of family treks and private jokes.
... magnificent.
... while Seeing Ghosts would not exist without Chow's grief — while Chow would not be the person she is now without that grief — her project here aims for more than just mapping her primal anguish.
