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I Ate the Whole World to Find You

Rachel Ang 

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An entire sea of water can't sink a ship…unless it gets inside

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’s routing her way more firmly into adulthood. As she navigates friendship, family, and romantic relationships, will her inability to 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 old habits get dragged across the tracks. Cousins revisit summer holiday bliss—or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attempt to reconnect over a dip in the pool on a squelching summer day. And an expectant mother slips into an unusual place as she embarks on a communion with her baby more pure than language can accommodate.

Set against an exquisitely lush Australian backdrop, Rachel Ang’s pencils are fluid yet scratchy, precise and evocative, bringing to life the inner and external world of Jenny with stunning realism and gushing imagination. Sprinkled with speculative fiction and fantasy, Ang’s radiant debut collection introduces a dynamic voice to comics, and establishes Ang as one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today.

Product Details

PublisherDrawn and Quarterly
Publish DateApril 08, 2025
Pages316
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781770467583
Dimensions221.0 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches | 1.5 pounds
BISAC Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

About the Author

Rachel Ang is an artist and writer working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne, Australia). Their work has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post and kuš! Rachel’s first book Swimsuit was published by Glom Press in 2018, and they were a contributor to the Eisner Award winning anthology, Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival in 2019. Rachel still lives in their hometown, where they draw comics and work in Architecture.

Reviews

“Here are stories of the body's darkest moments and profoundest ecstasies, bound up in a lush, strange, genre-defying collection. I adored this book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“Rachel Ang’s I Ate the Whole World to Find You combines my two favourite flavours: strange and evocative. They draw a beautifully reverberating world that transcends language so that we can see the splendour of it all anew. This collection is a hallucination, a holy text, an experience to return to again and again.” —Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

I Ate the Whole World to Find You is a mesmerising collection of dancing lights and shadows, sometimes perplexing and unsettling, always beautiful. Their characters navigate attraction, old hurts and the eternal dilemma of having a body—ushered with the utmost care by Rachel Ang’s gestural, sensual cartooning.” —Lee Lai, Stone Fruit

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