Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts - Expanded Audio

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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Tessa Hulls talks about her graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts with S.W. Conser on Words and Pictures on KBOO Radio Portland
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Tessa Hulls talks about her graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts with S.W. Conser on Words and Pictures on KBOO Radio Portland
Hungry Ghosts profiles a journalist who flees an authoritarian regime - losing her mind along the way - and her granddaughter who uncovers her story

 

In this extended conversation with Feeding Ghosts author Tessa Hulls, we spend an extra 20 minutes digging into the story of her family's struggles and of a graphic memoir nine years in the making.

Feeding Ghosts is a sprawling saga of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history.

Tessa is an illustrator, painter, researcher, historian, chef and adventurer.  Her grandmother and mother fled Shanghai for Hong Kong during Mao's Great Leap Forward, at great cost to the family and her grandmother's health.  Sixty years later, Tessa brings her mother back to China on a mission to find answers to nagging questions and seek resolution to generational traumas.

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