Ebook: The Woo-Woo: how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
Author: Wong Lindsay
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General, Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Vancouver, Psychoses--Patients, Psychoses--Patients--British Columbia--Vancouver, Psychoses--Patients--Family relationships--British Columbia--Vancouver, Biographies, Biography, Autobiographies, Wong Lindsay -- 1987-, Psychoses -- Patients -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Biography, Psychoses -- Patients -- Family relationships -- British Columbia -- Vancouver, Chinese Canadians -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Biography, BIOGR
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
- City: British Columbia;Vancouver
- Language: English
- epub
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 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. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2019. Winner of the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. 2018.
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