The Butterfly Jungle by Diriye Osman
Migil Bile is a confidently curvy, tea-spilling, super-bright, slightly-dizzy queer British-Somali journalist with schizoaffective disorder and sauce to spare. Ensconced deep in the drama of being a twenty-something, working-class South Londoner juggling one too many gig-economy jobs, wonky mental health and romantic wackness, he takes the unsuspecting reader on an existential meditation on immigration, Brexit, gentrification, sexual assault, the pitfalls of being a digital worker, what it's like when all your immediate family members are on the LGBT spectrum, and explores what constitutes community and kinship during a global pandemic.
Shot through with bombast and badassery, fusing Somali, Spanish, Kiswahili, patois, sheng and hip-hop slanguistics into a sex-drenched, fourth wall-smashing blend of poetry, letters, essayistic excursions and interlinked short stories, THE BUTTERFLY JUNGLE is a tour de force and Diriye Osman is a bad bitch/good-natured motherf*cker who never takes mess (but doesn't mind splitting his lunch money with you.)
Ain't sh*t left to say.
Dig in, reader.
Diriye Osman is a British-Somali author, visual artist, critic and essayist based in London.
He lives on a diet of Disney cartoons, graphic novels, masala chai and Missy Elliott records.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781739773908 |
| ISBN 10 | 173977390X |
| Title | The Butterfly Jungle |
| Author | Diriye Osman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Team Angelica Publishing |
| Year published | 2022-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 134 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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