“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
I worked with a mentor who was Canadian, but lived in France, and I would send her bits of my manuscript each month, and then she would send me back the manuscript marked up with notes. And through that, I ended up with about a 40,000 word prose memoir that was complete in story, but not complete in any other way. And it wasn’t working. There were lots of fundamental problems that I couldn’t figure out how to solve.
Looking back at it, two things had to happen: one was that I had to become a mother myself before I could really flesh out and understand my parents and give more meaning and higher stakes to the work, and two, I had to become a cartoonist. I had to start working in the graphics medium. Not every story from that other book made it into this book. But some of them did, and they were just much more effectively told through a combination of word and image, instead of just words. And maybe that’s my own failings as a prose writer.
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