PIK-SHUEN FUNG

How do you grieve if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? That is the question prompted by New Yorkbased Canadian writer Pik-shuen Fung in her debut novel

Ghost Forest. Told in vignettes, the story follows a woman coming to terms with her father’s death. The family emigrated to Canada before the 1997 handover, leaving the father behind to work in Hong Kong. Fung weaves a story of grief, family and enduring love, as the daughter turns to her mother and grandmother for unanswered questions about an almost stranger.