Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781551527369
Year: 2018
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press


Description:


In
this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a
dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they
should really be 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; when she was six, Lindsay and her mother
avoided the dead people haunting their house by hiding out in a mall food court,
and on a camping trip, in an effort to rid her daughter of demons, her mother
tried to light Lindsay's foot on fire.



The eccentricities take a dark turn,
however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city
hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when
Lindsay starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders
whether she will suffer the same fate as her family.



At once a witty and touching memoir about the
Asian immigrant experience and 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.