{"product_id":"the-story-game-isbn-9781959030751","title":"The Story Game","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs seen in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hypnotic, wise, and thunderously innovative.”—T Kira Madden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A powerful work of art and healing.”—Jaquira Díaz\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immigrant, her feelings about being in a mixed-race marriage, her opinions on mental health. But as her stories progress, it becomes clear a volatile secret lurks beneath their surface. There are events in Hui’s past that have great significance for the person she’s become, but that have gone missing from her memory. What is it, exactly, that is haunting Hui? Who is the little girl she talks to? And who is Hui herself?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the conversation continues, what unfolds is a breathtaking, unexpected journey through layers of story toward truth and recovered identity; a memoir that reenacts, in tautly novelistic fashion, the process of healing that author Shze-Hui Tjoa moved through to recover memories lost to complex PTSD and, eventually, reconstruct her sense of self. Stunning in its originality and intimacy, \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a piercing tribute to selfhood and sisterhood, a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination, and a one-of-a-kind work of art.Probes the author's mixed feelings about her father's homeland in Bali, her life in London, the dynamics of her marriage to a white German man and more.—New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate exploration of a woman’s identity. . . . Memory, loss, trauma, and powerlessness emerge as salient themes in this probing memoir.—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterrogates subjects including racism and colonialism with piercing intellect. . . . Gorgeous prose and lucid political thought.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImaginative.—Book Riot, A Best Book of May\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA profound, clear-eyed, and harrowing explanation of what it takes to confront and heal from traumatic memories.—Brooklyn Rail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of Stephanie Foo’s \u003ci\u003eWhat My Bones Know\u003c\/i\u003e and Jami Nakamura Lin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read… it offers the reader a chance to heal alongside the author.\n—Adroit Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully insightful…. Beautifully written.—Cha Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a major debut work from a most astounding talent. Shze-Hui Tjoa’s memoir not only challenges genre, it upends and splits it wide open. In meditations on grief, displacement, mental health, and family, Tjoa will have you wondering how and why we remember, and what we can’t forget. \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e is hypnotic, wise, and thunderously innovative. I will teach this book, I will treasure it, and I will continue to learn from its astute and hopeful insights.\n—T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShze-Hui Tjoa’s \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a patient excavation of selves: not the I of today, but the version before and the one before that, flawed and flawing, all the way back to childhood, reaching through history and memory to dust free so many cruel reflections. Ardently exquisite, Shze-Hui Tjoa tenders astonishment with blushing tenacity.\n—Lily Hoàng, author of A Bestiary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading this, I forgot about the real room I was in. I felt fully contained in the invented room separating \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game’s\u003c\/i\u003e chapters. In The Room, Shze-Hui Tjoa makes make-believe serious the way children do—but she does it by playing with the memoir genre. As her storytelling progresses, she plunges, as the greatest writers have, to The Depths, revealing how the artistic process transforms her understanding of mind and body. Her ascent into The World is startling and powerful. After I read it, I felt a new world of creative possibilities opening. \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e is hyper-specific yet ethereal, serious and funny. It’s mesmerizing.\n—Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShze-Hui Tjoa’s memoir is unlike anything else I’ve read. \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the place where forgotten truths can finally be shared. It’s an astonishing work of imagination, emotion, and memory. I’ll be reading this one again.\n—Wendy S. Walters, author of Multiply\/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth formally innovative and page-turning, Shze-Hui Tjoa transports us in \u003ci\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/i\u003e back and forth between two sisters in their childhood bedroom and the outside world. We eventually find ourselves siding with Nin's interruptions and questions: Where is Hui? Who is Hui? Tjoa's gaze upon the world is both tender and wry, and for those of us who are women or queer or people of color and have dreamed of a life lived solely in the mind, Tjoa shows us slowly, little by little, layer by layer, how disembodiment often comes at a great cost. With each attempt at truth-telling, we come to see just how easily we can omit what is essential to understanding ourselves and, thus, those most important to us.\n—Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, author of A Fish Growing Lungs\u003cb\u003eShze-Hui Tjoa\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer from Singapore who lives in the UK. She is a nonfiction editor at \u003ci\u003eSundog Lit\u003c\/i\u003e, and previously served as fiction editor of \u003ci\u003eExposition Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in journals including \u003ci\u003eColorado Review, Southeast Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSo to Speak\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been listed as notable in three successive issues of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e series (2021-23). Her work has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, Disquiet International, and AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233748431077,"sku":"NP9781959030751","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781959030751.jpg?v=1767741670","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-story-game-isbn-9781959030751","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}