Book cover for All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong

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My next graphic memoir, All Our Ordinary Stories, about the legacies of upheaval and the barriers children of immigrants face in connecting with their parents, will be out Sept. 24.

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  • “I love this book with my whole heart. Every line, written and drawn, sings. In it, we find grief and tenderness, astonishing escapes and endless afterlives. All Our Ordinary Stories will pass from hand to hand, it is a treasure, a compass, and a hope.”

    – Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

  • “Teresa Wong’s growing deftness of the comic form is on full display in All Our Ordinary Stories, an exciting follow-up to her debut graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet. A meditation on bridging distances—of time, place, language, and understanding—this book is an important addition to the Canadian comics canon.”

    – Jillian Tamaki, co-creator of Roaming

  • “Through her simple, thoughtful drawings and sensitive storytelling, Teresa Wong details the intense love and pervasive worry of being a child of immigrants. This story is a deeply empathetic one about what it means to belong to a family. It’s riveting, and it’s profound.”

    – Liana Finck, New Yorker cartoonist and author of Passing for Human

  • “All Our Ordinary Stories bravely and completely captures the second-generation experience—the grief, frustration and impossibility of trying to reassemble what has been concealed, lost or erased. At its core, this is a poignant tribute to immigrant mothers, to quiet love, to finding comfort in 'simple' gestures, like a fleeting moment of holding hands.”

    – Vivek Shraya, author of People Change and Death Threat

  • “Teresa Wong’s All Our Ordinary Stories is anything but: her masterfully-paced graphic memoir takes us through the tiny heartbreaks and beats that make up our families and ourselves, beautifully articulating what is often difficult to express. Reading this book is a project in expanding our capacity to care for one another. I loved it; you will too.”

    – Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You

  • “From Mao’s China to Hong Kong to a quiet food court in suburban Calgary, Teresa follows the trail of her parents and grandparents, and learns that there are no easy conversations that can fix the damage of oppression, displacement, and trauma. But All Our Ordinary Stories simultaneously shows us that we can always bear witness and lovingly carry what is passed down. An extraordinary book.”

    – Jen Sookfong Lee, author of Superstar

  • “I was truly moved by Wong’s insights into the invisible life of families, her ability to capture inexpressible histories and emotional undercurrents. But what will stay with me is the powerful, transformative story of Wong’s development as an artist. This wise book, both beautiful in form and content, is a masterclass in surviving through creativity.”

    – Kyo Maclear, author of Unearthing

Featured comics & writing

Panel from my CBC comic where I'm looking at a laptop with a potential photo of my great-grandfather
Gouache illustration of a pink blouse on a hanger
Panel featuring a young Teresa riding the bus in the dark from my Believer comic
Panel of me falling with a baby from my McSweeney's comic

Events & Workshops

I regularly give lectures and workshops in person and online through organizations such as Sequential Artists Workshop, Creative Nonfiction, and Surrey Libraries, as well as to university classes around the world. In addition to teaching, I have presented at some of the biggest comics, writing, and marketing conferences in North America, including SXSW (2022), San Diego Comic-Con (2020), Vancouver Writers Fest (2019), and Wordfest Calgary.

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Author bio

Teresa Wong is the author of the graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories (2024) and also Dear Scarlet (2019), which was a finalist for The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and longlisted for CBC Canada Reads. Her comics have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and The Walrus. A teacher of memoir and comics at Gotham Writers Workshop, she was also the 2021–22 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

Teresa Wong, sitting on a chair in a photo studio

I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.