Ghost Forest is a book that takes the reader to Hong Kong. The book is about the author herself and her family. It is somewhat difficult to find words for this review because it was a short read, with even shorter chapters. But the mainline of the autobiographical and non fictional story is that her family is a typical astronaut family. Many Hong Kong families left in 1997 before the takeover of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China. Pik-Shuen and her family moved to Vancouver, Canada. Her father kept moving though between Hong Kong for work and Canada, from this comes the term astronaut father. And altough the rest of the family left Hong Kong, the bond with it stays strong. She revisits memories of her late father in the book, who became very ill and did not surive his illness. And during the book more memories from her and narratives of her mother and grandmother follow. The short chapters deal with immigration, grief, questions and family dynamics.
I though it was a short but nice novel, very different then anything else I've read. I am a huge lover of books set in Asia and especially Hong Kong, and this book truly had a real Hong Kong feel to it. So if your are into to something original and out of the box, this is a book not to miss!!
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