Anson Tong Wrote An Essay About Grief

by | May 8, 2026

For Prism, Anson Tong wrote a personal essay about grief. Tong told Study Hall that the essay reflects “the odd experience of looking through my estranged father’s phone after he died, and processing the grief of losing someone I had a very fraught relationship with.”

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