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The woo-woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
Wong, Lindsay, 1987- author.
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Arsenal Pulp Press, |
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[2018] |
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315 pages ; |
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9781551527369 |
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The woo-woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
Wong, Lindsay, 1987- author.
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The woo-woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
Wong, Lindsay, 1987- author.
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Wong, Lindsay, 1987- author.
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Title:
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The woo-woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family / Lindsay Wong.
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Publication:
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Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018]
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©2018.
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Physical description:
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315 pages ; 21 cm
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text txt
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Personal subject:
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Wong, Lindsay, 1987-
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Personal subject:
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Wong, Lindsay, 1987- --Childhood and youth.
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Personal subject:
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Wong, Lindsay, 1987- --Family.
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Wong, Lindsay, 1987- --Mental health.
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Subject term:
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Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Vancouver--Biography.
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Psychoses--Patients--British Columbia--Vancouver--Biography.
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Psychoses--Patients--Family relationships--British Columbia--Vancouver.
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Issued also in electronic format.
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Summary:
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"In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"-Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay's foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself."--
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ISBN:
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9781551527369 (softcover)
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8562075
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