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In this collection of essays, the author details her life growing up “as a queer, brown fat girl in Singapore.” The essays blend memoir with pop culture, history, & current events with a particular focus on horror films & how they reflect society‘s ideas, images, understanding, control of women & their bodies. Compelling, occasionally heartbreaking, & always interesting, these essays tell a remarkable story of finding yourself & where you belong.

This excellent collection of essays alternately taught me a lot (mostly about Singapore, a place I knew pretty much nothing about before reading this book) and moved me, particularly when de rozario writes about her mother and the intense homophobia she experienced from her and Singaporean society at large as a young person. I also particularly liked the essays that drew parallels between horror media (The Shining, Walking Dead) and her life.

In this collection of essays called DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND, the table of contents is a "menu"!

I'm excited to start this, with themes of monsters in horror movies and growing up queer, brown, and fat in Singapore.

Nonfiction is not generally a genre I gravitate towards unless it's about something I'm super interested in. That being said, these three new nonfiction books just came out and I am really excited to start them! 📚❤️

Writer and artist Tania De Rozario provides her perspectives on various topics as a citizen of Singapore and as a queer woman in a series of essays. Using the metaphor of monsters and femininehood, she tackles themes of family, sexuality, religion, and national politics. Such examples are her forced exorcism, Christian hypocrisy, her attraction to women, and contradictions of Singaporean society and government, this is a visceral read!

Todays no questions asked automatic buy