“Unearthing Shadows: Kim Liao Reveals the Haunting Secrets Behind ‘Where Every Ghost Has a Name'”
Liao expertly weaves memoir with narrative nonfiction, travel writing, family lore, and intensive historical research. The result is a story that illustrates the complicated impossibilities of truly understanding family stories, particularly ones entwined with political exile and trauma. I was drawn to Where Every Ghost Has a Name because it embodies what I love most in a work of creative nonfiction: narratives with a spine of truth, fleshed out by writing into the gaps of collective and individual memory as well as archival absence.
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