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02539aam a2200361Ii 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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1030900553 |
| CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181204080145.0 |
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180409t20182018bcc 000 0 eng d |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781551527369 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1551527367 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
YDX |
| Modifying agency |
BDX |
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TOH |
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OCLCO |
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KSA |
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UOK |
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YDX |
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CNWPU |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCA |
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KVIJL |
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GZD |
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| Geographic area code |
n-cn-bc |
| LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
GZDA |
| Local processing data |
bajc* |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
616.890092 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Wong, Lindsay, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Woo-woo : |
| Remainder of title |
how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Lindsay Wong. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
315 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"--Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay's foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Psychoses |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Psychoses |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
616.89 WON |
| c |
410 |
