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Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir 'Feeding Ghosts' tells a story of China's Cultural Revolution

The cover of "Feeding Ghosts" alongside author Tessa Hulls. (Courtesy)
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The cover of "Feeding Ghosts" alongside author Tessa Hulls. (Courtesy)

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We revisit Scott Tong’s conversation with author and illustrator Tessa Hulls from March 2024. Hulls’ graphic memoir “Feeding Ghosts” won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography.

It tells the story of how her journalist grandmother’s struggles with mental illness following China’s Cultural Revolution continued to reverberate through the generations.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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