And the Walls Come Crumbling Down, Tania De Rozario
Tania De Rozario’s And the Walls Come Crumbling Down is a Lambda Literary Award–finalist blend of queer memoir and lyrical meditation that interrogates what “home” means when neither family nor country can offer safety. Told in intimate, fragmented prose, the book follows a young queer woman in Singapore who refuses sanitized narratives and instead builds a life within the mess, pain, beauty, and history of real human experience. Powerful, poetic, and unsettling in its honesty, this North American edition includes a new preface from the author.
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And the Walls Come Crumbling Down
Paperback – September 28, 2020
by Tania De Rozario (Author)
A 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, And the Walls Come Crumbling Down is a haunting and luminous hybrid of queer memoir and poetic meditation—an excavation of what “home” can mean when family, nation, and safety have all failed to provide it. Beginning in the early 2000s, Tania De Rozario follows a young queer woman in Singapore who cannot find refuge in her biological family or country of origin, yet refuses to relinquish the idea of home. Instead, she insists on history, on truth, and on building a life rooted in the chaotic beauty of real human experience.
Crafted through intimate, radically vulnerable fragments, De Rozario’s prose navigates a terrain of abandonment, exclusion, desire, dementia, religion, queerphobia, and the ache of searching for belonging. Rejecting sanitized order and linear perfection, the book embraces mess, excess, pain, and tenderness as essential parts of survival. With surgical precision and lyrical force, De Rozario slices through façades of propriety to reveal a beating, resilient heart beneath.
This North American edition includes a new preface by the author, further deepening its exploration of memory, displacement, and chosen truth. Whether reflecting on the architecture of Singaporean housing estates or the emotional architecture of human relationships, De Rozario asks a central, destabilizing question: If home is not a building, not a place, not a person—then what is it?
A work of profound emotional clarity, And the Walls Come Crumbling Down challenges and reshapes our understanding of home, family, and the stories we tell to survive.
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