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Ladataan... The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese FamilyTekijä: Lindsay Wong
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Dark, sometimes too dark; funny as hell, you'll feel horrible by laughing and then, you'll laugh some more. Lindsay Wong will hold your hand (and your head) and make you look at her insane but tender and loving family. A gem of a memoir! ( ) It's well-written, compelling, and convincing. It's also amazing how things can look so different on one level, and yet on the level of mechanics and outcomes completely the same; my Baptist WASP suburban Toronto family had no ice hockey, drug raids, or Chinese Woo-Woo, but there were demons, and a hatred of and opposition to psychology/psychiatry and getting help, and a lot of cruelty, and very similar scars and damage coming out from it. Go figure. If your parents were less than loving and supportive, be warned: this could be a challenging read. Memoir of a young woman of Chinese descent coming of age in Vancouver in the 1990s/2000s. The "Woo Woo" refers to demons, which her family references as the cause of psychosis experienced by certain family members. The author manages to inject humour into the story, but still provides an honest account of her life. I read this book because it was short-listed for Canada Reads. It is a memoir, in which the author talks about her Chinese-Canadian family. The family believes every bad thing that happens to them (big or small) is the result of ghosts. In fact, it appears that the family has a history of mental illness. I found the book hard to relate to. Most of the family went by translations of their traditional Chinese names, so we get characters such as "Aunt Beautiful One". I found this made it more difficult for me to remember that this is a true story. Immigrant stories tend to deal with flight from one place and/or learning to fit in to a new culture. Rarely do we get a glimpse into other issues, such as mental illness. In that way, this is an important book, which serves to show that we can suffer similar challenges no matter how or when we got here. näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"In this jaw-dropping, 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 anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"--Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's 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 Lindsay's foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. 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 woo-woo 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 Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself."-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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