Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner) [B1660]

2024 PB with minor wear. Winner: Pulitzer Prize for Memoir; Winner: National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize; Winner: 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize; Winner: Libby Award for Best Graphic Novel; Winner: Eisner Award; Kirkus Nonfiction Prize Finalist; Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal; Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award.

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in her family. Tessa's grandmother, Sun Yi, was a Shanghai journalist swept up by the turmoil of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong, she wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival―then promptly had a mental breakdown from which she never recovered. Growing up with Sun Yi, Tessa watches both her mother and grandmother struggle beneath the weight of unexamined trauma and mental illness, and bolts to the most remote corners of the globe. But once she turns thirty, roaming begins to feel less like freedom and more like running away. Feeding Ghosts is Tessa's homecoming, a vivid, heartbreaking journey into history that exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, and the love that holds them together.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Amazing. I hesitated to buy this... a long graphic novel? Not my usual... But I am SO glad that I did. Absolutely riveting and beautiful, this book was about mothers and daughters, history, trauma, love, duty, memory, and understanding who we are. I can definitely see why it won a Pulitzer. If you're on the fence, just read it!"; "Engrossing, wrenching, honest, informative, illuminating, beautifully illustrated, artfully told, brave, I can see how this took so much out of the author to write."; "A graphic memoir - and a deep dive into understanding her family's history through her relationships with her mother and grandmother.

Done as an act of self healing. She points out vividly what the trauma of living in a violent country (China in this case) and having to flee does to people in terms of trauma and how that affected her life. A very brave exploration. And fantastic artwork."; "Compelling memoir, important Chinese American history, a tour de force of graphic storytelling."; "Different than anything else I have read. A really beautiful reflection on familial trauma, epigenetics, and the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves and each other about our lives can shape the way we live. I also knew shockingly little about this time period in China so it was interesting to learn more."