Ghost Forest

How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of Ghost Forest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong "astronaut" fathers, he stays in Hong Kong 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 throughout 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, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly funny, Ghost Forest 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.

ISBN:	9780593230985
Publisher:	One World
Imprint:	One World
Published date:	06 Sep 2022
DEWEY:	813.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	200g
Height:	132mm
Width:	203mm
Spine width:	18mm

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