![]() ![]() ![]() " I feel like I always miss Mommy," she says to her sisters when suddenly sobs wrack her body years after her mother's death. Their deaths cleaved my life in two, and in the after, grief always hovers overhead.Ĭhow does distill what it feels like to grieve well beyond the initial shock of death in Seeing Ghosts. Two years later, my father died of cancer, too. ![]() I have read so many grief memoirs over the years, looking for reflections of my sorrow in others' reckoning with immense loss. When I sat down to read Kat Chow's debut memoir Seeing Ghosts, I expected a meditation on what it means to live a life shot through with grief.Īfter all, the central ghost the title refers to is Chow's mother, who died less than two weeks after being diagnosed with cancer in 2004, when Chow was 13. Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir, by Kat Chow / Grand Central Publishing ![]()
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