Anisfield-Wolf Book Club

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January’s Selection: 2025 Memoir Winner, Feeding Ghosts, by Tessa Hulls

Tessa Hulls’ graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, is a compendious multi-generational epic combining a sweeping history of twentieth century China with an intimate, extraordinary family story. Stories indeed – our most precious inheritance – lie at the heart of this remarkable volume: the gnawing need to tell them and the hunger to hear them.

Feeding Ghosts Through Music

While you read Tessa Hulls’ award-winning memoir, Feeding Ghosts, take a listen to our curated playlist of songs inspired by cowboys, travel, nomads, and more!

Book Discussion Questions

Whether you are hosting your next book club or would simply like some questions to guide your reading, program director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Kortney Morrow, has curated a selection of questions to consider while you read Feeding Ghosts.

Recommended Reading

Did you enjoy reading Feeding Ghosts? If so, we recommend the following memoirs, graphic novels, and stories to add to your reading list!

Memorial Drive (2021 AWBA Winner), Natasha Trethewey

The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman

The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui

The Woman Warrior (1978 AWBA Winner), Maxine Hong Kingston

How to Not be Afraid of Everything, Jane Wong

The Fortunes (AWBA Winner 2017), Peter Ho Davies

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