Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
Hulls uses the graphic form to hold memory the way it actually arrives: in images, fragments, and recurring symbols. The memoir moves across generations, showing how trauma travels through families—sometimes as story, sometimes as silence. The illustrations don’t simply “depict” events; they interpret emotion, atmosphere, and the shape of fear. The pacing feels intimate, like being led through a carefully kept archive that suddenly becomes alive. Hulls is honest about the limits of knowing—how even love can’t always translate what happened. The book’s power comes from its steadiness: it refuses sensationalism while still confronting pain directly. It also carries a quiet tenderness toward survival, in all its messy forms. By the end, the title feels literal: a work of care offered to the past. It’s a memoir you don’t just read—you absorb.
