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Ghost Forest
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Pik-Shuen Fung
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve finished hearing the last word.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE • “Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and tenderness in . . . Fung’s elegant storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review
How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings?
This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there 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 through 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 and heartbreaking, 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.
“Ghost Forest is the tender/funny book we can all appreciate after a hellish year.”—Literary Hub
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Critic reviews
"This is the book I’m excited about.... It’s about grief but it’s...light as a feather, and it has to do with how it’s arranged on the page. It’s almost like reading poetry but it’s a novel.... The words are beautiful, the writing is gorgeous, but just the way the book is laid out feels extremely refreshing.” (Ann Patchett)
“Made by an artist who angles her mirror to make room for the faces of others, Pik-Shuen Fung’s Ghost Forest resembles a xieyi painting, a place where white space and absence are as important as color and life. At once an elegy to all that’s been lost between countries, languages, and generations, and a quietly urgent call to love what we have. Inventive, funny, and devastating.” (Jennifer Tseng, award-winning author of Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness)
“Ghost Forest is a debut certain to turn your heart. With a dexterity and style all her own, Pik-Shuen Fung renders the many voices that make up a family, as well as the mythologies we create for those we know, and those we wish we knew better. I am madly in love with this book, a kaleidoscopic wonder.” (T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls)
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-07-21
Beautiful & unique
Pix-Shuen's voice reads her book beautifully, what I would call her memory bubbles . You don't need to be told in depth everything , it's refreshingly written with courage. I could visualise precious moments that really moved me, and felt her anxiety of not knowing what's expected of her at the hospital. it shows her families support of each other without the need to say they loved them dearly. Now going to read the book myself.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-07-21
Stunning
This is a truly beautiful book which I couldn’t recommend highly enough! The authors audio is a great listen.
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- Yoshay
- 13-05-22
Heartbreaking
This wonderful short memoir pierces your heart. This book is about trying to make sense of the world when one is compelled to live and bring up one's children in an alien culture torn away from that one person you love the most. It's about trying to find the silver lining in the face of a tragedy and about learning to bid a slow farewell. It's about picking up the many pieces and moving on as life continues oscillate between happiness and sadness. Between longing and indifference
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