“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
Her second graphic memoir, All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey, came out in September 2024 from Arsenal Pulp Press. I was excited to speak with her about the book. Our conversation is below.
Lara Lillibridge: My first question was from the Notes on Language at the very beginning of the book:
“My first language—the language of my family—is Cantonese. And even though I don’t speak it well, you can assume all conversations I have with my parents and other Chinese elders in this book occur in Cantonese. I have chosen to keep some Cantonese words untranslated because I feel they are better represented and more meaningful in their original form. My Cantonese transliterations do not follow a standard romanization system, but they are mainly searchable online. I also use Mandarin Pinyin for many Chinese place names to make them easier to locate on a map. If you find this jumble of language and dialects frustrating, please know that it is even worse inside my head.”
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