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Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow6/12/2023 ![]() Chow does this most skillfully in scenes with her father, a man who struggles with happiness, whatever that means, yet seems desperately to want. Seeing Ghosts is about Florence, yes, but also about everything Florence's family means-a patchwork quilt of Chinese Americans making sense of the amorphous American Dream. That would be selling the story short, not to mention failing to grasp its scope. It would be easy to characterize Chow's book as yet another grief memoir, another tale of how to wade through the years of loneliness and struggle after the loss of a parent. Chow excavates her own history with ruthless honesty and deep respect. ![]() In carefully arranged pieces, anecdotes laid together like mosaic tiles, Chow unleashes the power of her own grief after the loss of her mother. ![]()
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