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Look Who’s Morphing
Look Who’s Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing fictions in which, along with his extended family, the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music clips and video games, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, and Whitney Houston’s bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, a Ford Bronco 4×4 – and, as a climax, a Gulliver-sized cock rock singer, played upon by an adoring troupe of sexy Lilliputians in short skirts and sailor suits and cheerleader outfits.
Within these fantasies there is a deep intellectual and emotional engagement, a fundamental questioning of the nature of identity, and the way it constructs itself in a world dominated by the images of popular culture.
Tom Cho is a rare and original voice in the Australian literary landscape. His stories are eccentric, witty, deceptive, and immensely pleasurable. I read this book in one sitting and wanted more.Tony Ayers
It’s not often that the avant-garde is this much fun. With hearty helpings of slash and flash, Cho uses the madness he unleashes with his rock stars, ninjas and nuns to poke at questions of identity, belonging and the machinations of culture itself. Cho’s website promises a novel to follow this collection, one that will ruminate on questions such as, ‘What are the attributes of God?’ You better believe I am champing at the bit, ready to preorder.
Lauren J. Joseph, Frieze
