Poured Over: Kat Chow on Seeing Ghosts

Miwa Messer

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Seeing Ghosts

Kat Chow

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Grief, trauma and tragedy run through Kat Chow’s family tree from China to Cuba to the United States, with everything coming together in 1980s Connecticut. Kat joins us on the show to talk about death and grief, ghosts and survival and debt, what it was like to report her own family’s story, taxidermy as metaphor, and more. Featured books: Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow and Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala. Produced/Hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang.
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