In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different. Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to "banish the evil" from Tania. That day, the young girl realized that monsters weren't just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere--including your own family and community--and look just like you. &nbsp;Dinner on Monster&nbsp;Island is Tania's memoir of her life and childhood in Singapore--where she discovered how difference is often perceived as deviant, damaged, disobedient, and sometimes, demonic. As she pulls back the veil on life on the small island, she reveals the sometimes kind, sometimes monstrous side of all of us. Intertwined with her experiences is an analysis of the role of women in horror. Tania looks at films and popular culture such as&nbsp;Carrie, The Witch, and&nbsp;The Ring&nbsp;to illuminate the ways in which women are often portrayed as monsters, and how in real life, monsters are not what we think. &nbsp;Moving and lyrical, written with earnest candor, and leavened with moments of humor and optimism,&nbsp;Dinner on Monster Island&nbsp;is a deeply personal examination of one woman's experience grappling with her identity and a fantastic analysis of monsters, monstrous women and the worlds in which they live.

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

Literature & Fiction

De Rozario, Tania

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

"A series of interlocking short pieces that reach right into your guts and squeeze them, artfully and without mercy." --Ivan Coyote, author of Tomboy Survival Guide Ms. Magazine's "October 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us" Part queer memoir and part poetic rumination, And The Walls Come Crumbling Down lays bare the love, pain, and precarity experienced by those who must forge their own home. &#65279;&#65279;&#65279;&#65279;If home is not a building, what is it? If home is not a place, what is it? If home is not a person, what is it? And the Walls Come Crumbling Down starts in the early 2000s. A young queer woman in Singapore is unable to find safety and refuge in her biological family or country of birth. But she insists on home. She insists on history. She refuses sanitized orderliness and linear perfection, choosing to build a life that embraces the mess and excess of human existence. Presented in radically vulnerable fragments through a hybrid of queer memoir and poetic rumination, De Rozario's And The Walls Come Crumbling Down masterfully lays bare the love, pain, and precarity experienced by those who must forge their own home. This edition, out for the first time in North America, is updated with a new preface from the author.

And the Walls Come Crumbling Down

LGBTQ+ Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Gaudy Boy, LLC

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