Through her school days, where she must negotiate a precarious balancing act between her culture and fitting in, to her teenage years where appetites must be managed to keep up appearances, to her early adulthood where responsibilities feel overwhelming, Divya journeys from feelings of emptiness to once again finding fulfilment within.
To the Last Gram is an honest and hopeful story of feeling at odds with and finding a home in one’s community, family, and body, and of the unfurling journey to embrace the fullness of life.
Shreya Davies is an editor by day, and has worked on comics, literary fiction, and non-fiction publications. Her short stories have previously been published in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories and Mahogany Journal. To the Last Gram is her first foray into writing a graphic novel. She never leaves home without a book in tow.
Vanessa Wong is an illustrator and graphic designer who finds beauty in mundanity. Drawing inspiration from people and interactions in her daily life, she hopes to use her art to find humour in and celebrate such moments. When she isn’t drawing, you can find her somewhere, staring at nothing.
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