In this jawdropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woowoo"Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woowoos sinister effects at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsays foot on fire to rid her of the woowoo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woowoo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The WooWoo is a gutwrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself.show more

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press; Classification: BM; Weight: 550 g; Dimensions: 152 x 203 x 20

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