In Carrianne K. Y. Leung's The Wondrous Woo

Throughout the semester, we have read many texts that deal with the topic of mental illness and stability. Interestingly, the characters who exemplify these problems are virtually all women. In Carrianne K.Y. Leung’s The Wondrous Woo mental illness and mental episodes affect nearly all the female characters in the text. Some mental illnesses are dealt with more heavily than others, while many are hinted at, but never fully developed. We see Miramar struggle with eating disorders and mental health, Sophia lies to make her life more appealing, and the mother struggles with the most severe cases of metal episodes and is hospitalized for it. Interestingly, we see this occurrence of the mother in the hospital in Ayelet Tsabari’s The Best Place