Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel

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Price
$26.99  $25.10
Publisher
Harpervia
Publish Date
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.6 X 8.4 X 1.2 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780063140882

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About the Author
CLAIRE KOHDA is an author, musician and artist. Her debut novel, Woman, Eating, was a book of the year in Harper's Bazaar, New Yorker, Glamour, BBC and HuffPost. As a violinist she has played with artists including Sigur Rós and The National, and on various film soundtracks. Lost Wonders is the first book she has illustrated.
Reviews
"Lydia's achingly vulnerable first-person narration gains momentum as she achieves self-acceptance--and, ultimately, self-empowerment. . . . Subversive and gratifying."--Kirkus Reviews
A magnificent debut.--The Millions
Absolutely brilliant - tragic, funny, eccentric and so perfectly suited to this particularly weird time. Claire Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own in a way that feels fresh and original. Serious issues of race, disability, misogyny, body image, sexual abuse are handled with subtlety, insight, and a lightness of touch, and the novel is ridiculously suspenseful! I was on the edge of my seat, just waiting for Lyd to bite someone, and in the end, I felt utterly and happily bitten.--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being
Unsettling, sensual, subversive, Woman, Eating turns the vampire trope on its head with its startlingly original female protagonist, caught between two worlds. It is a profound meditation on alienation and appetite, and what it means to be a young woman who experiences life at an acute level of intensity and awareness. Claire Kohda's prose is biting, yet lush and gorgeous. I was uncomfortably smitten.--Lisa Harding, author of Jenna Book Club Pick Bright Burning Things
We have here a vampire book that will scrub any trace of Twilight from your mind--Claire Kohda's debut follows a young vampire dealing with all kinds of hunger: for acceptance, for artistic success, and for sushi.--Glamour
Here's one for gothic horror fans - a modern day vampire thriller that also covers race, social isolation, unrequited love and parental loyalty.--BBC Radio World Service
Woman, Eating deals a lot with food, hunger, and Lydia's relationship to her body. But this novel also deals with spiritual nourishment, art, womanhood, shame, and identity....Khoda's prose will take you on a deep emotional journey. Trust me, this is not your average vampire story--it is a novel that displays the incredible breadth of what speculative fiction can show us about the human condition.--Tor.com
What Stoker did for the vampire at the end of the nineteenth century, Claire Kohda does for it in our own era....[T]here is much here to mesmerize and beguile readers, not least in Kohda's prose, which is patient, strange, and altogether persuasive.--Times Literary Supplement (London)
Presenting a genuinely fresh take on the vampire mythos is an exceedingly difficult task in a post-Twilight world of bloodsucker rehash, not to mention enduring classic representation, but that's precisely what Kohda manages in her debut novel....A delicate, consistently surprising riff on the vampire narrative, and a stealthy, subversive story of one young woman's declaration of self.--Library Journal (starred review)
The most unusual, original and strikingly contemporary vampire novel to come along in years.--The Guardian