Too Much And Not The Mood: Essays

"Durga Chew-Bose breaks form constantly in her debut collection of essays. The first, “Heart Museum,” clocks in at 93 pages and slides in and out of meditations on the ways that seemingly innocuous things – like albums or films – can change your life. Others touch on what it means to examine a space and the people who inhabit it; her family; and what it feels like to be the only brown girl in a white place. Chew-Bose’s writing has rightfully been compared to the form-breaking work of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, and she delightfully expands the essay genre."