![]() Taken together, the stories evoke a macabre, surreal netherworld governed by terror and haunted by ghosts, demons, and zombies. ![]() Did this fraught hush lead her away from memoir? Is this why she turned to fiction with Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality, a volume of short stories that draws on family lore but is explicitly not autobiographical?ĭedicated to Wong’s ancestors, “who faced terrible and portentous horrors” in China, this collection offers a chilling blend of the mythological and the supernatural. ![]() Although the book won critical and popular acclaim - it was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and a Canada Reads contender - it was met with silence by Wong’s family. Lindsay Wong is best known for her 2018 memoir, The Woo-Woo, which exposed the secrets and mental health struggles of her conservative Chinese Canadian family. ![]()
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