{"product_id":"9780593230985","title":"Ghost Forest","description":"By: Pik-Shuen Fung     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis “powerful” (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and tenderness in . . . Fung’s elegant storytelling.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the question the unnamed protagonist of \u003ci\u003eGhostForest\u003c\/i\u003e considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings. Turning to her mother and grandmother for answers, she discovers her own life refracted brightly in theirs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuoyant and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eGhost Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGhost Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is the tender\/funny book we can all appreciate after a hellish year.”—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46403181084899,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780593230985","price":115.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780593230985.jpg?v=1748571164","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/9780593230985","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}