I Ate the Whole World to Find You [non-booktrade customers only]
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Author: Rachel Ang
I Ate the Whole World to Find You maps the topography of trauma,treasures, and loss imposed onto the body of Jenny, a twenty-something-going-on-thirty-something partial hot mess who’srouting her way more firmly into adulthood. As she navigatesfriendship, family, and romantic relationships, will her inabilityto communicate destroy her, or ultimately be her rebirth?A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails as oldhabits get dragged across the tracks. Cousins revisit summerholiday bliss — or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attemptto reconnect over a dip in the pool on a squelching summerday. And an expectant mother slips into an unusual place asshe embarks on a communion with her baby more pure thanlanguage can accommodate.Set against an exquisitely lush Australian backdrop, RachelAng’s pencils are fluid yet scratchy, precise and evocative,bringing to life the inner and external world of Jenny with stun-ning realism and gushing imagination. Sprinkled with specula-tive fiction and fantasy, Ang’s radiant debut collection introducesa dynamic voice to comics, and establishes Ang as one of themost exciting short-story writers working in comics today.RACHEL ANG is an artist andwriter working on the uncededlands of the Wurundjeri peopleof the Kulin Nation (Melbourne,Australia). Their work hasbeen published by The NewYorker, The Washington Post,and ku?! Rachel’s first bookSwimsuit was published byGlom Press in 2018, and theywere a contributor to the EisnerAward–winning anthologyDrawing Power: women’s storiesof sexual violence, harassment,and survival in 2019. Rachel stilllives in their hometown, wherethey draw comics and work in Architecture.
ISBN 9781761380884. Scribe Publications. pb. 312 pages. 22.2 x 15.6 cm.
not yet published
I Ate the Whole World to Find You maps the topography of trauma,treasures, and loss imposed onto the body of Jenny, a twenty-something-going-on-thirty-something partial hot mess who’srouting her way more firmly into adulthood. As she navigatesfriendship, family, and romantic relationships, will her inabilityto communicate destroy her, or ultimately be her rebirth?A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails as oldhabits get dragged across the tracks. Cousins revisit summerholiday bliss — or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attemptto reconnect over a dip in the pool on a squelching summerday. And an expectant mother slips into an unusual place asshe embarks on a communion with her baby more pure thanlanguage can accommodate.Set against an exquisitely lush Australian backdrop, RachelAng’s pencils are fluid yet scratchy, precise and evocative,bringing to life the inner and external world of Jenny with stun-ning realism and gushing imagination. Sprinkled with specula-tive fiction and fantasy, Ang’s radiant debut collection introducesa dynamic voice to comics, and establishes Ang as one of themost exciting short-story writers working in comics today.RACHEL ANG is an artist andwriter working on the uncededlands of the Wurundjeri peopleof the Kulin Nation (Melbourne,Australia). Their work hasbeen published by The NewYorker, The Washington Post,and ku?! Rachel’s first bookSwimsuit was published byGlom Press in 2018, and theywere a contributor to the EisnerAward–winning anthologyDrawing Power: women’s storiesof sexual violence, harassment,and survival in 2019. Rachel stilllives in their hometown, wherethey draw comics and work in Architecture.
ISBN 9781761380884. Scribe Publications. pb. 312 pages. 22.2 x 15.6 cm.
not yet published