Like two dreams of the underworld playing exquisite corpse with each other. And Tony Leung is in it. -- Sebastian Castillo 

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I read this & immediately wanted to riot in the streets, by virtue of how good it is. I also learned a lot of facts about public figures like Awkwafina & Michelle Obama. - Jesi Gaston, director of Black Pill, author of GOOMAH (GAUSS-PDF), and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics contributor (Nightboat Books)

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This book brings out my ego because I tear up and/or giggle while reading it, feeling like it was written just for me. The film Funeral Parade of Roses—the story that Funeral continues—is an urban retelling, but all the trappings of stylization aren’t there: there’s no enforced grittiness; the lights are very bright, the blood flowing very freshly. This book by D & V captures the same approach: materials do not shield or dictate shape, they stagger and drape. Sometimes in the movement a secret color flickers. But more than just sensory development, an inexorable sequence of events. More than an allegory or satire or retelling, more like documentation of being entrenched in the universe and all the gossipy deadpan jokes to be made while trying to love sweetly in the face of cruelty’s differentiation. When everything feels impossible, maybe you have mistakenly presumed ethereality. D & V show that what animates aftermath is without boundaries. -- Ginger Ko