“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
LL: I am a mother also, and definitely having my second child helped me understand my mother in a way that having my first child didn’t. I had to sort of get to that similar state of chaos. You wrote about your mother saying that you never looked like her, and it sounded like such a mean thing to me as a reader… But then you have this insight of, ‘what is it to look at your child’s face and not see anything of yourself in it?’
That gave me mercy for your mother, and a new way of thinking of it and as a reader. I have brown eyes and had dark brown hair before I went gray, and my kids were both blonde haired, blue-eyed kids, and everywhere I went, everyone said, “Oh, he looks like his daddy.” And I just wanted to hit people. So it gave me a way in to understand your mother that I liked. Now, I was curious about the timing of publication. Do you have the same publisher for both books?
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