$39.99 AUD

‘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, author of In the Dream House

I Ate the Whole World to Find You

$39.99 AUD

I Ate the Whole World to Find You

Overview

Introducing a bold new voice — one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today.

A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails. Cousins revisit summer holiday bliss — or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attempt to reconnect over a dip in the pool. And an expectant mother slips into uncharted territory as she enters a communion more pure than language can accommodate.

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 making 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?

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, this radiant debut collection establishes Ang as a storyteller of range and power.

Details

Format
Paperback
Size
222mm x 156mm
Extent
316 pages
ISBN
9781761380884
RRP
AUD$39.99
Pub date
1 April 2025
Rights held
ANZ
Other rights
Jacinta di Mase Management

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Awards

  • Winner of the 2026 The Monsoon Awards for Best Experimental Comic
  • Shortlisted for the 2025 The Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection

Praise

‘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
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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.

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