To the Last Gram - Paperback
To the Last Gram - Paperback
by Shreya Davies (Author), Vanessa Wong (Illustrator)
Too big. Too small. Wanting to feel special. Never feeling like you're enough. When you're different from everybody else, the world cuts hard and sharp like a knife.
Through her school days, where she must negotiate a precarious balancing act between her culture and fitting in, to her teenage years where appetites must be managed to keep up appearances, to her early adulthood where responsibilities feel overwhelming, Divya journeys from feelings of emptiness to once again finding fulfilment within. To the Last Gram is an honest and hopeful story of feeling at odds with and finding a home in one's community, family, and body, and of the unfurling journey to embrace the fullness of life."Visceral and unflinching" -- Kirkus Reviews
"To the Last Gram is a beautifully honest exploration of living with disordered eating and body image. But it's also, most meaningful to me, an interrogation of what "recovery" from mental illness means, and the ways in which recovery is never linear..." -- Keezy Young, Hello Sunshine
"To The Last Gram is a wonderful comic about the insidiousness of disordered eating and the difficult journey of recovery in a society where body shaming and diet culture are so often masked as 'healthy.'" -- Jade Armstrong, Food School
Author Biography
Shreya Davies (Writer)
Shreya Davies is an editor by day, and has worked on comics, literary fiction, and non-fiction publications. Her short stories have previously been published in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Vol 4) and Mahogany Journal. To the Last Gram is her first foray into writing a graphic novel. She never leaves home without a book in tow.
Vanessa Wong (Illustrator)
Vanessa Wong is an illustrator and graphic designer who finds beauty in mundanity. Drawing inspiration from people and interactions in her daily life, she hopes to use her art to find humour in and celebrate such moments. When she isn't drawing, you can find her somewhere, staring at nothing. Instagram: @tradervans.