“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
TW: I had a bit of an out in the sense that from that first manuscript, I had already set out to write my parents’ stories, and interviewed them, and recorded those interviews. They were not keen, but they had accepted it and they were cooperating. They understood what I wanted to do and so I had their permission. However, I talk about this in the book, I wanted to interview them again to get a new perspective, to ask deeper questions.
And the second time, my mom was now much older, had been through more, and was looking at the past in a different way. And, she got quite upset, and I didn’t feel good about that. So what I told myself was I would just have to work with what I had. I did show them the book before I sent it to my publisher as well. They can’t read it. They’re not English readers, but I tried to walk them through each page, because my fear was my mom would open up the book thinking it’s the story of her escape, and then in the first pages, she sees herself old and in the hospital.
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