Most of all though, my issue with The Woo Woo was that it is repetitive. This is all something that likely wouldn’t matter to most readers but I was looking forward to reading about Vancouver and this isn’t a story about that at all. Wong doesn’t really branch out of her suburb within the confines of this memoir (at least not until she leaves the country completely). And while her neighbours are largely Chinese immigrants, they seem to be living very different lives than the neighbours I had. As she freely admits, she grew up in a wealthy suburb. I thought I’d find more here that was familiar, even if my family doesn’t believe it’s haunted by ghosts, because, after all, who in Vancouver hasn’t lived next to a grow op?įirst of all – and this is a minor point – I didn’t much recognize Wong’s Vancouver. I was curious to read Wong’s portrayal of Vancouver and her story of her crazy Chinese family. It sounded like the kind of quirky memoir I would enjoy. The Woo Woo – Lindsay Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
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