Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir | 2021 | Kat Chow | Buy |
Kat Chow is a journalist and memoirist whose non-fiction work draws on her experience as a Chinese American woman. She worked as a reporter for NPR’s Code Switch before turning to book-length writing.
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir (2021) is her first book. It traces three generations of her family, beginning with her parents’ immigration stories and leading to the sudden loss of her mother. Chow writes openly about how grief settled into her family and how she learned to live alongside it. The book received praise for its honesty and was named a best book of the year by several publications.