Haunting memoir of a fractured Hong Kong and life on the edge

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The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung, pub. Penguin Random HouseAmong the acknowledgements at the end of her first book, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Karen Cheung thanks a banyan tree in Blake Garden. That’s in Sheung Wan’s Tai Ping Shan neighbourhood, ground zero of Hong Kong’s bubonic plague of 1894. She used to stare at it from her nearby window for hours while trying to write.“This entire area is haunted probably,” she remarks one recent night, sitting in the…

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