DIRTY KITCHEN Author Event - Canceled!

DIRTY KITCHEN Book Launch & Community Event - CANCELED

Come join us for the exciting launch of Jill Damatac's book, DIRTY KITCHEN: A Memoir of Food and Family, at Flower Cat! Join us for an evening grounded in community care and celebration.

The evening will feature:

• Resource and mutual aid groups

• A reading from DIRTY KITCHEN

• A conversation between Jill Damatac and fellow author Qian Julie Wang, author of NYT's Best Selling book, Beautiful Country and a civil rights litigator

• More to come!

Your ticket purchase includes entry to a raffle featuring a special bundle of Yellow Peril Books merch, a signed copy of Jill Damatac's DIRTY KITCHEN, and other special surprises.

About the Book

From the publisher: In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America. DIRTY KITCHEN publishes on May 6, 2025 with One Signal/Atria/Simon & Schuster.

Jill Damatac left the US in 2015 after living there as an undocumented immigrant with her family for twenty-two years. America was the only home she knew, where invisibility had become her identity—her mother tongue and indigenous roots long buried—and where poverty, domestic violence, ill health, and xenophobia were everyday experiences. First traveling to her native Philippines, she eventually settled in London, England, where she was free to pursue an education at Cambridge University, fully investigate her roots, and process what happened to her and her family; after nine years, she was granted British citizenship.Interweaving forgotten colonial history and long-buried indigenous traditions, Damatac takes us through her time in America, cooking her way through Filipino recipes in her kitchen as she searches for a sense of self and renewed possibility. With emotional intelligence, clarity, and grace, Dirty Kitchen explores fractured memories to ask questions of identity, colonialism, immigration, belonging, and to find ways in which the ritual, tradition, and comfort of food can answer them.