Today’s book is weighty. We read Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls. This book follows the lives of Tessa’s grandmother, mother, and herself through some of the most difficult periods of Chinese history in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the mental illness and generational trauma that has bound them together ever since. It’s not all doom and gloom as we also talk about visual metaphors and page composition, but come prepared.
Also mentioned in this episode:
Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
To Live directed by Zhang Yimou
A Concise History of China by Jian Bozan, Shao Xunzheng, and Hu Hua
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
and Be Yourself! Oh, Not Like That by Emilia Strilchuck
Music by Sleuth
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