Thanks to Harper Perennial for the free copy of this book.

 - DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND is a knockout essay collection. De Rozario fills this short book with rage, love, and thoughtfulness.
- De Rozario speaks not on just being queer, but being fat, brown and queer in a society that actively works to suppress or eliminate all these things. I think we in the U.S. often think of Singapore as being an incredibly strict society, and while that’s true, a lot of what is described isn’t so far off from the way we treat each other here.
- A good chunk of this book centers on self-policing and what to do when your fellow citizens are the ones doing the surveillance and reporting. I’m not sure there is an answer since it’s such a big thing to grapple with, but it’s something to open our eyes to for sure.