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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.

Amma was written directly from the heart.

The author of She Who Became The Sun said it was a queer body horror book.

This was recommended to me as a thorough exploration of minds and what they could be if they were not human.

I am reading with friends.

I forgot to avail myself of a library recently so time to return to my bought backlog.

Looks fun, has a Tamsyn Muir endorsement on the cover.

Recommended by a friend due to worldbuilding and mysteries.

Recommended by a friend due to a good protagonist.

Found a review of this in project research, looks fun.

Someone artsy quoted this author and then my friends all chimed in to say they wanted to read this book.