Seattle creator Tessa Hulls has added a Pulitzer Prize to her rising checklist of accolades for Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir.
The 2025 Pulitzers have been introduced Could 5. Feeding Ghosts received within the “Memoir or Autobiography” class.
As Seattle journal wrote in a profile of Hulls last year, Feeding Ghosts “braids collectively the narratives of three girls: Hulls’ Chinese language grandmother Solar Yi, her mom, Rose, and Hulls’ personal experiences as a mixed-race lady in search of to grasp her household’s previous.”
The Pulitzer website says: “In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese language historical past throughout three generations of girls in her household. Tessa’s grandmother, Solar Yi, was a Shanghai journalist swept up by the turmoil of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong, she wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival — then promptly had a psychological breakdown from which she by no means recovered.
“Rising up with Solar Yi, Tessa watches each her mom and grandmother wrestle beneath the burden of unexamined trauma and psychological sickness, and bolts to essentially the most distant corners of the globe. However as soon as she turns thirty, roaming begins to really feel much less like freedom and extra like working away. Feeding Ghosts is Tessa’s homecoming, a vivid, heartbreaking journey into historical past that exposes the concern and trauma that hang-out generations, and the love that holds them collectively.”
Feeding Ghosts has racked up quite a few awards because it got here out final yr, together with:
• The Nationwide Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.
• The 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize.
• The Libby Award for Greatest Graphic Novel.
• A Kirkus Nonfiction Prize Finalist.
It was additionally named a finest ebook of the yr by quite a few publications, together with Time, Forbes, NPR, LitHub, Writer’s Weekly and the Library Journal.
“Working collectively (together with her mom) on Feeding Ghosts was each emotionally brutal and emotionally transformative,” Hulls advised Seattle journal final yr.
