The Story Game Shze Hui Tjoa

 A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cost of expectation, and the power of storytelling to shape€“and ultimately repair€“a life.What was that game we used to play when we were children? We played it every night, before things went wrong between us.It was a story game, wasn€™t it?In the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immigrant, her feelings about being in a mixed-race marriage, her opinions on mental health. But as the stories progress, it becomes clear that a volatile secret is lurking beneath their surface. There are events in Hui€™s past that have great significance for the person she€™s become, but that have gone missing from her memory. What is it, exactly, that is haunting Hui? And just as importantly€“what is the room that Hui is lying in? Who is the little girl she keeps talking to? And who, actually, is Hui herself?As the conversation continues, what unfolds is a breathtaking and unexpected journey through layers of story toward truth and recovered identity; a memoir that reenacts, in tautly novelistic fashion, the process of healing that author Shze-Hui Tjoa moved through in order to recover memories lost to complex-PTSD and to, eventually, reconstruct her sense of self. Stunning in its originality and intimacy, Tjoa€™s debut memoir The Story Game is a piercing tribute to selfhood and sisterhood, a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination, and a one-of-a-kind work of art. Note: Please be aware that the book you have purchased is a digital file in PDF format and not a physical book.