"No loser in this family, okay? We have to beat up Involving Wong that resulted in a broken leg for one of Wong'sįellow hockey players, she was conflicted about whether to feel guilty. Her parents encouraged her to play rough.) After an incident on the ice When she was a pre-teen and her mother had disappeared for whatįelt like weeks, Wong resolved to become MVP of the league in hopes of Wong kept her emotions bottled up, except when she was playing Made you extremely vulnerable to the Woo-Woo ghosts." As Wong explains in theįirst chapter of The Woo-Woo, "crying was considered contagious it "Crying will turn you into a zombie like Mommy," Protect them from the dead people who haunted their house. Mall food court every day because she believed the bright lights would Wong was six years old, her mother brought her and her siblings to a Superstitious relatives who all believed in ghosts. Wong's grandmother had schizophrenia and Wong grew up with Of Carmen, I had no idea about the family drama that my smart and Students, and, as we listened to Bach and analyzed the passionate lyrics To make extra cash as a teen, Wong taught music history to studiousĪsian immigrant kids in her parents' basement. Where we lived "Pot Mountain" because of the meth labs and In her darkly comic memoir, The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey,ĭrug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, Wong dubbed the suburb I met her through my best friend at the time. Generic homes in Coquitlam, British Columbia, an hour's drive from Lindsay Wong was a year ahead of me in secondary school and lived aįew blocks down the hill in a sprawling neighbourhood of large but
TAKING ON THE WOO-WOO: Lindsay Wong's novel is a darkly comic look at the effects of mental illness and the resilience of the human soul." Retrieved from
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