“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
I’m always interested in the decisions writers make about language that might be unfamiliar to the reader, and when you decide like you wrote about, you know, these are commonly Google able, and you know, if you really care, you can look it up. And so how did you make the decision on how to deal with that in your book?
Teresa Wong: I think the main guiding principle I had was keeping an audience in mind. The audience I had in mind was quite specific—people who are like me—second generation Chinese or Asian, you know, Chinese Canadians or Chinese Americans. They would know these words—the ones that I wouldn’t translate. But more specifically, it was written kind of for my brother, who I know definitely would know these words.
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