A review by camille_caterpillar
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

A very difficult but engrossing read. I honestly can't rate it, and I'd be hard pressed to earnestly recommend it, yet I couldn't put it down. Wong's raw writing style and her determination to tackle unfathomable horrible situations with dark humour is commendable. Also, I found the subject matter fascinating and nor often talked about - not mental illness itself, or its consequences, but rather the infectious consequences of ignoring it. It also draws a bold portrait of a "complex" abusive situation, where every abuser is also abused, where general pathos forces the reader to sit uncomfortably with the nuanced realities of illness and ignorance, and generati9nal trauma.