A review by zarvindale
Lifeboat by Kristine Ong Muslim

5.0

This book breathed life into me. Kristine Ong Muslim’s poems here, compared to those in Grim Series, are more lyrical while maintaining the narrative structure and bizarre images. In Lifeboat’s world, there is horror sowed on the fields and there is a landscape of doom in the horizon. But if one is to look up, the light of hope casts upon everything, even if clouds of desperation get in its way from time to time. Simultaneously optimistic and pessimistic, All that’s left in me was longing after reading this wondrous book.