What The Fuck Is This by Celeste Mountjoy (aka Filthyratbag) aims for the heart in this, her first
book.
What The Fuck Is This is a spectacularly original collection of illustrations and observations on being
young, female and occasionally seriously fucked off!
Unnerving, empowering, heartbreaking and hilarious, Celeste’s art explores anxiety, feminism, addiction,
body image, relationships and societal expectations.
With uncanny precision, it articulates the dark stuff we feel but dare not show and provides the perfect
antidote to the cultivated ideals of Instagram.
Celeste’s narrative offers solidarity rather than preachy advice. With brave vulnerability, she takes
the reader through her coming of age, first heartbreak, struggles with mental health, alcoholism and loss,
towards a place of acceptance, clarity and profound realisation – “time turns the pain into diamonds.”
Women, young and old, will be able to relate to both the graphic text and her amazingly colourful
‘cartoonesque’ illustrations.
Laugh, cry and experience the full gamut of emotions as the grim tale unfolds.
Confronting and cathartic, it engenders both sympathy and empathy for those darkest moments.
The book is a must-read for both sexes, as, surely, everyone can benefit from lessons about the realities of life if told with humour and artwork at its quirkiest.
ISBN: 9781760986148
What The Fuck Is This is available in Hardback and e-book.
About Celeste Mountjoy
Celeste Mountjoy is a 21-year-old Melbourne-based artist. She has been posting as Filthyratbag on
Instagram for five years. During that time, she started a highly successful business making and selling
products that feature her artwork. She has been featured in the NYT, and on ABC and BBC. With an online audience of 800,000, Celeste has become a voice for a generation of women who are no
longer prepared to smile politely at the outrages, uncertainties and absurdities of life on the path to
adulthood.
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