How writing about ghosts helped Lindsay Wong examine her family's history of mental illness

Lindsay Wong's bestselling memoir “The Woo-Woo” became a huge hit in 2018 for its darkly funny and honest take on inherited trauma through generations of a Chinese-Canadian family. The titular "woo-woo" is a name for the ghosts that Lindsay's family blamed for their woes, when in reality, they were suffering from mental illness. She talks to Tom about her upbringing and why she decided to create some fictional ghosts of her own in her new book of short stories, “Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality.”