Thomas's Reviews > Ghost Forest

Found this one a bit dry, unfortunately. In Ghost Forest Pik-Shuen Fung delves into some deep themes related to family, loss, and navigating grief. There were a few passages in the novel that touched me, like when the protagonist recognizes her previously one-dimensional view of her father and tries to make amends, even if only internally. However, the prose in this novel didn’t excite me or for the most part even move me – it all felt a bit safe and bland on the page. Weike Wang’s Joan is Okay comes to mind as a book with similarish themes centering a Chinese American woman, with a bit more punch and voice, as well as Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation , about a Taiwanese American woman though with a way more satirical and bombastic slant than this novel.