Ghost Forest

Ghost Forest
Pik-Shuen Fung
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Paperback
h203 x 132mm - 272pg
6 Sep 2022 US
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9780593230985
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This"powerful" (BuzzFeed)debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you' ve closed its covers. "I am madly in love with this book, a kaleidoscopic wonder. "-T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsHow do you grieve, if your family doesn' t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForestconsiders after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong "astronaut" fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings. Turning to her mother and grandmother for answers, she discovers her own life refracted brightly in theirs. Buoyant and heartbreaking,GhostForest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family. "GhostForestis the tender/funny book we can all appreciate after a hellish year. "-Literary Hub
"Ghost Forest is a debut certain to turn your heart. With a dexterity and style all her own, Pik-Shuen Fung renders the many voices that make up a family, as well as the mythologies we create for those we know, and those we wish we knew better. I am madly in love with this book, a kaleidoscopic wonder. "--T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"' With a single line, you can paint the ocean, ' says an art teacher in Ghost Forest, as apt a description as any for Pik-Shuen Fung' s sparse, gorgeous, devastating debut novel. Here, silences speak. Brilliant and pitiless at first, Ghost Forest mutates in the reader' s hand, until it shimmers with grace and unexpected humor. A mercurial meditation on love and family. "--Padma Viswanathan, bestselling author of The Ever After of Ashwin Rao "Made by an artist who angles her mirror to make room for the faces of others, Pik-Shuen Fung' s Ghost Forest resembles a xieyi painting, a place where white space and absence are as important as color and life. At once an elegy to all that' s been lost between countries, languages, and generations, and a quietly urgent call to love what we have. Inventive, funny, and devastating. "--Jennifer Tseng, award-winning author of Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness"Like a Chinese ink painting, every line in Pik-Shuen Fung' s Ghost Forest is full of movement and spirit, revealing the resilient threads of matrilineal history and the inheritance of stories and silences. With humor, compassion, and clear-eyed prose, Fung reminds us that grief, memory, and history are never linear but always alive. Fung writes about the questions we forget to ask, the stories that are hidden from us, and the complex acts of care at the core of family. She reminds us that what is unspoken is never lost. Ghost Forest is an intimate act of recording and reckoning. It trusts us to listen. It shows us all the languages for love. "--K-Ming Chang, author of Bestiary "In Ghost Forest, Pik-Shuen Fung gives us a family so aching with tenderness, so incandescent with grief and love, that reading about them felt like reading about my own deepest and most secret longings and regrets. This is a book to break your heart and then fill it to bursting again. What an exquisite, glorious debut. "--Catherine Chung, author of The Tenth Muse "[A] moving debut . . . Bracing fragments and poignant vignettes come together to make a stunning and evocative whole. "--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Seemingly spare yet undeniably dense with so much unsaid, Fung' s polyphonic first novel is a magnificent literary triumph. "--Booklist (starred review)
Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer and artist living in New York City. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Kundiman, the Millay Colony, and Storyknife. Ghost Forest is her first book.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593230985
Published: 6 Sep 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Random House Books
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Pages: 272

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