The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons and My Crazy Chinese Family

✍ Scribed by Wong, Lindsay

• Book ID: 110496121
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 309 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781551527369

✦ Synopsis

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...