Pearls from Their Mouth
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hajar Press
Published:28th Jul '22
Should be back in stock very soon

This book is built of stories and provocations--like the birth of a pearl, it transforms that which irritates, layer by layer.
Through speculative fiction and critical essays, Pear Nuallak explores what happens when messy, desiring bodies collide with the hard edge of power. The world's neat categories are unmade and rewritten, revealing that racial capitalism's myths are just as much fantasies as Thai bird princesses and transgender magic.
Moving playfully across folktale, horror, satire and critique, Nuallak examines how different beings are formed politically, bodily and emotionally. We discover interdimensional fungi resisting colonisation, queer monsters living on Hampstead Heath, and a mysterious canal running through the ruins of capitalism into interstitial realms. We test the borders of queer diasporic nationalism and take apart the racially melancholic memoir. In this fiery yet delicate collection, we aren't bound by truth, but flow with it into new worlds.
'Riotously abandon[s] the narrative structures to which we have accustomed ourselves ... point[s] to the fluidity of form and its political potential.' -- Bad Form
'Not so much a call-to-arms ... but a book dedicated to an audience already at arms, whose arms are sore but who are keen to keep fighting.' -- Singapore Unbound
'[Nuallak's] vision is verdant, their wit is wondrous, and their hope calls us home.' -- Harry Josephine Giles, author of Deep Wheel Orcadia
'A sharp and stunning queer offering, there to be worn like a charm.' -- Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
'A nourishing ode to the uncontainable; a generous, incisive call to get close to the body, texture and raw material of how we build another world together.' -- Remember & Resist
'Moves with purpose into the complex knot of life as a diasporic Thai queer in Britain ... to find a way of feeling out the tensions stretched along its many strands. A remarkable book.' -- the right lube
'Communicates with a refreshing and rare degree of radical honesty ... an essential read.' -- June Bellebono, transfeminine writer, organiser and founder of oestrogeneration
'Deeply thought-provoking, tender and exquisitely written.' -- Maymana Arefin, a.k.a. @fungi.futures
'Both dismantles the world around us and reimagines it ... in incisive and lyrical prose.' -- Akil Kumarasamy, author of Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
ISBN: 9781914221149
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
Weight: unknown
180 pages