{"product_id":"the-butterfly-jungle-diriye-osman-9781739773908","title":"The Butterfly Jungle","description":"\u003cp\u003eMigil Bile is a confidently curvy, tea-spilling, super-bright, slightly-dizzy queer British-Somali journalist with schizoaffective disorder and sauce to spare. Ensconced deep in the drama of being a twenty-something, working-class South Londoner juggling one too many gig-economy jobs, wonky mental health and romantic wackness, he takes the unsuspecting reader on an existential meditation on immigration, Brexit, gentrification, sexual assault, the pitfalls of being a digital worker, what it's like when all your immediate family members are on the LGBT spectrum, and explores what constitutes community and kinship during a global pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShot through with bombast and badassery, fusing Somali, Spanish, Kiswahili, patois, sheng and hip-hop slanguistics into a sex-drenched, fourth wall-smashing blend of poetry, letters, essayistic excursions and interlinked short stories, THE BUTTERFLY JUNGLE is a tour de force and Diriye Osman is a bad bitch\/good-natured motherf*cker who never takes mess (but doesn't mind splitting his lunch money with you.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAin't sh*t left to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDig in, reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiriye Osman is a British-Somali author, visual artist, critic and essayist based in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lives on a diet of Disney cartoons, graphic novels, masala chai and Missy Elliott records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diriye Osman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 173977390X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781739773908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Team Angelica Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Diriye Osman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44050870141183,"sku":"9781739773908","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47300fb8-1dba-4903-adf8-8db8b08e4743.jpg?v=1685009732","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-butterfly-jungle-diriye-osman-9781739773908","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}