LEADER 00000nam a22004215a 4500 003 MWT 005 20220708110103.1 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 181221s2018 xxu es 000 0 eng d 020 9781551527376|q(electronic bk.) 020 1551527375|q(electronic bk.) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ csp_9781551527376_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT12273359 037 12273359|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 616.890092|223 099 eBook hoopla 099 eBook hoopla 100 1 Wong, Lindsay,|eauthor. 245 14 The Woo-Woo :|bhow I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cLindsay Wong. 264 1 [United States] :|bArsenal Pulp Press,|c2018. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"-Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay's foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Wong, Lindsay. 650 0 Psychoses|xPatients|zBritish Columbia|zVancouver |vBiography. 650 0 Psychoses|xPatients|xFamily relationships|zBritish Columbia|zVancouver. 650 0 Electronic books. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 12273359?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ csp_9781551527376_180.jpeg