OTown Reads: Feeding Ghosts, by Tessa Hulls

Let’s read Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts together!

Join OTown Reads, our community bookclub, and read our summer selection, Feeding Ghosts, by Tess Hulls. This is not your ordinary memoir. Feeding Ghosts explores three generations of the author’s lineage and weaves together themes of mental illness, Communist Chinese history, and human migration.

"Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read." —Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage

For participants of OTown Reads, we offer this book at a 10% discount. And all are invited to our Wednesday, July 23, 7 PM gathering to discuss this groundbreaking book. Please be sure to RSVP.

About the Book

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, andthe love that holds them together.