Amma is a heartfelt book about queerness, brownness and intergenerational trauma in and around New Zealand through decades. The style choices are striking, and the structure weaves three lifespans into a kind of radial shape. Every so often the novel plunges a tiny knife into you, but it gives the wounds time to close up afterwards. I almost cried on public transit. The unfilled fifth star is my mere personal preference on how to tie ideas together; I will be eager to devour every book else de Silva publishes.