“Unearthing Shadows: Kim Liao Reveals the Haunting Secrets Behind ‘Where Every Ghost Has a Name'”
Not long after Thomas Liao’s arrest, other members of the Liao family were arrested and had their land seized; but several family members, including the author’s grandmother, were forced into exile. Where Every Ghost Has a Name spans the year that Liao spent in Taiwan wading her way through her family’s history, which, she quickly learns, has been largely erased or hidden away by the KMT government. This historical and cultural silence around post-WWII Taiwan served as an uncanny mirror for the silence that surrounded the author’s own family after they arrived in the United States, lasting all the way into Liao’s adult life.
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