We are celebrating Book Clubs and the conv ersations that they inspire in this special library event! At this event\, we will be hosting celebrated local author\, Lindsay Wong\, discussing he r award-winning memoir\, The Woo-Woo\, as well as learning more a bout and connecting with members of Coquitlam Book Clubs.
\nMore about the Author: Lindsa y Wong is a local Coquitlam author. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid s chizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-wo o" -- Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age\, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects\; when she was six\, Lindsay and her mother avoided the dead people haunting their house by hiding out in a mall food court\, and on a camping trip\, in an effort to rid her daughter of demons\, her mother tried to light Lindsay's foot o n fire. The eccentricities take a dark turn\, however\, and when Lindsay s tarts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself\, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. At once a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience and a harrowing and honest dep iction of the vagaries of mental illness\, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family\, and oneself.
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