out at last: #OmarMusa Borneo novel, so fine & authentic, his imposter-syndrome musing may be book's patriarch too, always a step ahead of stifling post-colonial legacies. In uncertain nations, everyone's cosplaying, imposters abound because the feels triumph, the vibe swamps inconvenient facts...

Amazing Malaysian-Aust artists OmarMusa & Mariel RobertsMusa in 'The Offering', his poet/jiwa so triggered/staged by her full swells of cello &brass stabs, afloat Borneo's plastic ocean of climate emergency, as Omar's classic 'Fire on the hills' urgently rings w. sonic discordance & fierce woodcuts