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    "description": "How do you grieve, if your family doesn\u0092t talk about feelings?\n\nThis is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong \u0093astronaut\u0094 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nBuoyant and heartbreaking, Ghost Forest 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.\n\nQuietly moving,  connected by a kind of dream logic, deeply felt . There is joy and tenderness in Fung's elegant storytelling.\u0094 - The New York Times Book Review",
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