Ghost of mother from debut author-illustrator Laura Gao

from debut author-illustrator Laura Gao

She went to prison despite her protestations of innocence

Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night)

Children's Books Ages 3-5

Ghost of mother from debut author-illustrator Laura GaoBy Diana Khoi Nguyen Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids, and her family captured around an empty