Tessa Hulls, an artist and writer raised in Point Reyes Station, won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography last week for her graphic novel “Feeding Ghosts,” a visually arresting account of matrilineal inheritance set against the backdrop of China’s turbulent 20th century. It is only the second graphic novel to win a Pulitzer.

Spanning continents and three generations of women, the book is both a sweeping historical narrative and an intimate act of excavation, unearthing…