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Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games

Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games

Guillermo, Kawika

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Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 1834050065
ISBN13: 9781834050065
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: Sep 2 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

An immersive journey into the author's lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start again


Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a queer and mixed-race grandson of two preachers; as a traveller, immigrant, and games scholar; and as a father, caregiver, and mourner. Through a mixture of fanciful musing, rigorous inquiry, and unflinching self-reflection, Of Floating Isles reframes the gamer's retreat from others not as social isolation, but as a quest for a different community, one where they feel seen, heard, and understood. This deep-seated longing to belong, Guillermo suggests, forms the imaginative worlds of video games and the floating isles they conjure.

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