While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found he kept travelling home to Southeast Asia - a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu - to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. Gutted is a document of growing older - a massively moving work of grief, loss, comfort and illness and resolve - imbued with Chin's unique screwy perspective, ever-defective grace and scabrous humour. Chin is downright charming. - Publishers Weekly