Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung [in Booklist]
18 May, by in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Perhaps what is most noticeable upon opening Pik-Shuen Fung’s elegiac debut is all the white space. Paragraphs, phrases, words, even detached letters float across the pages, undoubtedly an ethereal reflection of lost chances, missing time, stolen opportunities, and spaces impossible to fill. For most of...
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