Alimentar a Los Fantasmas (Premio Pulitzer) / Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Ganador del Pemio Pulitzer por Memoria o Autobiograf a

Ganador del C rculo Nacional de Cr ticos del Libro y del Premio John Leonard al Mejor Primer Libro

Los 100 mejores libros del 2024 de Time Magazine

TRES GENERACIONES DE MUJERES CHINAS EN BUSCA DE RESPUESTAS PARA EL DUELO, EL AMOR, EL EXILIO, LA IDENTIDAD Y EL PERD N

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FINALISTA. -Andrew Carnegie Medal. -Nonfiction Kirkus Prize

Tres generaciones de mujeres se re nen en este c mic autobiogr fico de Tessa Hulls: su abuela Sun Yi, una periodista perseguida tras la victoria de los comunistas en China; su madre, Rose, quien carg durante a os con el peso del exilio y el dolor, y ella misma, que al cumplir treinta a os decidi rescatar la memoria de su familia.

Despu s de escapar de Shangh i en 1957, Sun Yi recal con su hija en Hong Kong, donde escribi unas memorias sobre la persecuci n sufrida; un relato de supervivencia que se convirti en un best seller inesperado. Al poco tiempo, sufri una crisis nerviosa que la llev a necesitar cuidados de por vida. Tessa creci viendo c mo su madre se ocupaba m s de Sun Yi que de ella, y c mo iba oprimi ndolas a las tres la carga de los traumas silenciados.

Tras intentar escapar en vano de su pasado y vivir en los lugares m s remotos del mundo, la autora volvi a casa sabiendo que, si quer a cerrar sus heridas, deb a narrar su historia familiar. Alimentar a los fantasmas es el resultado de diez a os de trabajo intenso y profundo, un libro que retrata los mecanismos por los que el duelo se transmite de una generaci n a otra, y que celebra el amor necesario para mantenerlas unidas.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Winner and the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

KIRKUS NONFICTION PRIZE FINALIST, LONGLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD AND THE CARNEGIE MEDAL, SHORTLISTED FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time, Forbes, NPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library

"Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read." ―Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.

In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself.

Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After eight years of government harassment, she fled to Hong Kong with her daughter. Upon arrival, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival, used the proceeds to put Rose in an elite boarding school―and promptly had a breakdown that left her committed to a mental institution. Rose eventually came to the United States on a scholarship and brought Sun Yi to live with her.

Tessa watched her mother care for Sun Yi, both of them struggling under the weight of Sun Yi's unexamined trauma and mental illness. Vowing to escape her mother's smothering fear, Tessa left home and traveled to the farthest-flung corners of the globe (Antarctica). But at the age of thirty, it starts to feel less like freedom and more like running away, and she returns home to face the history that shaped her family.

Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is Hulls's homecoming, a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of Chinese history. By turns fascinating and heartbreaking, inventive and poignant, Feeding Ghosts exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, and the love that holds them together.