We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

“Where’s reality, I want to change it.”

A 36 year old character that looks like Eleven from Stranger Things works in a run-down hotel on an Isle of Wight battered by waves of austerity and decline. Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reebok Classics come to life. Nothing is normal, in the house of Mother Normal.

Blending fiction and critical writing and anar- chic joy, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff is a rakish, boundary erasing work that collides literary aes- thetics with working class cultures and attitudes. Interrogating autobiographical material, it extends the avant-garde tradition to make it an ally for queer migrant experience.

Innovative, irreverent and critically British, it ques- tions dreams of national belonging while also cele- brating the radical potential of resistance, ingenuity, and friendship.