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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 finally 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 yet-unfurling journey to embrace the fullness of life.
- An intimate, introspective coming-of-age story of a young woman’s experience growing up with an eating disorder.
- Surreal artwork with dreamlike imagery that plays with scale and perspective to illustrate the emotional highs and lows of Divya’s journey.
- A look into how eating disorders are intertwined with race, gender, and can affect even those from a diet-free household.
- Narrated with humour and irony that acknowledges how joyful moments can also exist alongside difficult ones, Divya’s story is an honest look at the lifelong journey of living with eating disorders.
“To the Last Gram is a fierce, funny and deeply poignant exploration of body, hunger, and belonging. Shreya Davies writes with a fearless, unfiltered honesty that feels like cracking open a secret diary, laying bare the quiet devastations of growing up in a body under constant scrutiny and the long, often impossible journey to self-acceptance. With Vanessa Wong’s striking illustrations, this book is both a scalpel and a salve—cutting deep and putting you back together with the kind of compassion that makes you feel seen, whole, and just a little bit freer.”
—Pooja Nansi, poet and author of We Make Spaces Divine

“A story of courage and compassion in the face of body image challenges and food woes, this is a moving and unflinching depiction of growing up and the tumultuous journey of self-esteem.”
—Cyril Wong, poet and fictionist

“This comic speaks with so much compassion and hard-won wisdom to the acidic voice in our culture that tells us to constantly manage and punish our bodies… I adored the sweeping, kinetic art-style that captures the bewilderment of having a body in a culture where the body is increasingly under attack. I also love how Divya’s story, which is often upsetting but ultimately life-affirming, doesn’t lie to us about how the path to loving and respecting one’s body is a linear journey. It is, instead, jagged and life-long, and we must lean on the wisdom of others.”
—Joel Tan, playwright and essayist, author of Fat Shame

“A beautifully told and dynamically illustrated story that peels back layers of stigma and silence surrounding disordered eating to explore issues of belonging, mental health, body image, bodies and what it may or may not mean to feel happy in oneself.”
—Tania De Rozario, author of Dinner on Monster Island
Shreya Davies has edited comics, literary fiction, and non-fiction publications. Her short stories have appeared in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume Four) and Mahogany Journal. 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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To the Last Gram