‘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, author of Nightbitch
‘I devoured this book in one voracious go. It was explosive, blunt, biting, beautiful, and at times awful in the way those we most love can be. The characters are hard on themselves and soft on others, or tender on the inside and hard outside. Ang’s bold and brave illustrations are so expressive, their bodies so corporeal, their faces so full of inner feeling. And they’re so funny! I’ve never read a graphic novel quite like this one.’
Alice Pung, author of One Hundred Days
‘A strange and intuitive and hilarious book from a storyteller with a new kind of vision, for comics and people. Rachel Ang is a virtuoso mapper of hearts and brains and feelings, and this is the best kind of psychologically resonant fiction because it knows we don’t really know anything and then fully commits to exploring it anyway. It investigates the untouchable stuff at the centre of every person, and then lays out its findings in the most inventive and thoughtful ways.’
Ronnie Scott, author of Shirley
‘I have always loved Rachel’s beautiful art and deeply nuanced and emotionally charged stories. I Ate The Whole World To Find You perfectly captures the intimacy of what it feels like to live and love with uncertainty and an open heart. Rachel is a master storyteller of striking clarity who breathes new life into comic literary fiction.’
Mandy Ord, author of Bulk Nuts
‘This is a breathtaking study of the body: its hunger, its hurt, its limits, and its infinite poetic potential. Deeply moving, mysterious, and magical stories to dwell in and savour.’
Myfanwy Jones, author of Cool Water
‘I Ate the Whole World to Find You is a mesmeric fever dream deadset on breaking your heart. Rachel Ang’s agile, scratchy line renders the surreal feeling of being alive like no other living artist. I was inspired and dumbfounded and left writhing and speaking in tongues. koobfdgrf3efsihtdedafjksdfjkladsfklsdfkla;skdlr read this book!!!!’
Eloise Grills, author of big beautiful female theory
‘In living ink, Rachel Ang illustrates the umbilical connections between memory and body, vulnerability and resilience, childhood and womanhood. These vignettes are an emotional chiaroscuro: moody, bold, and rippling with light.’
Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of West Girls
‘Through visceral line work, and masterful composition, these compelling stories vividly wrestle in the muck of complex emotions, relationships, and trauma. Each piece unearths subterranean fault lines of harm, expectations, and shame, while shimmering with the longing for joy, belonging, safety, and freedom.’
Sarah Firth, author of Eventually Everything Connects
‘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, author of Stone Fruit
‘Rachel Ang’s graphic novel is made to be devoured. Blood-pumping and fresh … A bold, hallucinogenic collection that feels uncomfortably human.’
Claire Cao, The Guardian
‘Ang conveys Jenny’s brooding nature, bodily discomfort, and veiled desires through believably messy slices of life. This poignant work will appeal to fans of Megan Kelso’s comics and Nicole Holofcener’s films.’
Publishers Weekly
‘Compelling … Ang's narrative is textually minimal. Their expressive art builds layers of meaning not reliant on extensive words … Step-by-step, panel-by-panel, amid complications and challenges, Ang enables Jenny to painfully, tenaciously, figure out her own self.’
Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness
‘The richly illustrated and imagined universe of Rachel Ang’s collection of comics I Ate the Whole World to Find You captures the vastness, the intimacy and the strangeness of human feeling … Ang’s use of light and dark stands out, not only with lush, sprawling settings but also in the thickness of panel borders shifting as characters navigate their relationships and the black page as the fragile silence of night … This collection makes the surrealities of life palpable. It is an outstanding example of what this expansive form can do.’
Munira Tabassum Ahmed, ArtsHub
