PreviewsTeresa Wong
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All Our Ordinary Stories
A Multigenerational Family Odyssey
Teresa Wong
This understated yet poignant graphic memoir explores the complicated family dynamics of a Chinese immigrant family and the cultural, historical, language, and personality barriers to intimacy, as well as the power of storytelling, in a journey through time and place beginning with Wong’s mother’s stroke in 2014 and going back to her mother’s and father’s lives during China’s Communist and Cultural Revolutions.
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Dear Scarlet
The Story of My Postpartum Depression
Teresa Wong
This intimate graphic memoir tells the story, in text and illustrations, of Wong’s struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet, perfectly capturing the quiet desperation and profound feelings of inadequacy and loss.