“She thought if she could get us out of China, we'd be safe. But she couldn't outrun her mental illness. It was waiting to devour us. She always was a drowning woman trying desperately to throw me on the shore so I would not drown with her.” FamilyMental IllnessImmigration Experience Book:Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir Source: Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
“But what do you do when trauma distorts love into something cloying and fraught? Unresolved ghosts just grow stronger across generations, destroying children with the very things their parents swore to save them from.” Intergenerational Trauma Book:Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir Source: Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir