The Story Game: A Memoir
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"The Story Game 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. The Story Game 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."
-- T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
"Shze-Hui Tjoa’s The Story Game is a beautiful and heartbreaking interrogation of memory, a memoir unlike any I’ve ever read. A powerful work of art and healing."
-- Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
"Reading this, I forgot about the real room I was in. I felt fully contained in the invented room separating The Story Game’s 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. The Story Game is hyper-specific yet ethereal, serious and funny. It’s mesmerizing."
-- Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
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