We often pin people to the location and era that we’re born into, which is something I found interesting in this memoir-it actually defies that expectation. Well, I’ve said a lot already, so let’s dive straight into this review, shall we?Īfter her mother’s death, Kat Chow seems to find her mother in everything she does. It feels very natural and smooth, something that transitions between these eras quite seamlessly. We juxtapose scenes from past, present, and future in order to get the holistic picture, rather than just going through the story in a chronological order. Seeing Ghosts is a memoir about the death of Chow’s mother when she’s a teenager. So I put a hold in for it at my local library and called it a day when I drove over to pick it up.

And I knew I had to pick it up, although not then (I wish I could afford new books from Barnes and Nobles. It was in a Barnes and Nobles, while wandering around with my sister, when we passed the memoir section and I saw the cover once again. And then I forget about the book-but I never forgot about the cover. I remember it was on a list for books that are coming out in 2021 that you need to watch out for, and my eyes immediately gravitated towards the cover. Although the trend in publishing right now, especially in memoir, tends to skewer towards dead mothers (I’ve read Crying in H Mart and Tastes Like War before this), I knew about this book since the beginning of the year. I’d been waiting to read this book for so long.

Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow