Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel

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Sublett, J. W., & Bernstein, J. A. (2011). Seminal plasma hypersensitivity reactions: An updated review [Abstract]. Woman, Eating is the book to read if you want an example of completely wasted potential. We follow our protagonist, Lydia, around the city as she begins an art internship under an infamous so-called "art advocate", where she moves into a studio shared by multiple other young artists and cautiously enters a complicated relationship with a boy named Ben. But she's also a vampire, slowly descending into hunger as she struggles to find animal blood to feed from. 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. The spell this novel casts is so complete I feel utterly, and happily, bitten.” -- Ruth Ozeki, Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being Critical Praise

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One of these components is ergothioneine. Mushrooms often contain this antioxidant. This may give a slight mushroom-like taste to semen. It's best to get vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat, but when you're pregnant you need to take a folic acid supplement as well, to make sure you get everything you need. Indeed, if Woman, Eating has a flaw, it’s that the granular, zoomed-in quality of Lydia’s interior landscape prevents us from fully connecting the diffuse nodes of colonialism, misogyny and exploitation that Kohda depicts; how these pervade not just the art world but what’s beyond it. Instead, these problems feel too-easily saturated within the single figure of Gideon, who Lydia realizes, is “just a man—I felt his warmth as I’d squeezed past him the other day.” Gideon, who in all his devouring entitlement, turns out to be more vampiric than she—emblematic of what’s truly monstrous.

Asked by coroner Joanne Kearsley if he ever spoke to his sister about her drug use, Mr Partridge said: "I never asked her because I knew I was not going to get the truth, so I didn't bother wasting my time. I think she opened up a lot more to mum." In Woman, Eating we follow Lydia, Lyd, after she moves to a studio with other artists and starts an internship in, what she considered, a great place. She also gets to met Ben, an... awkward guy that was not interesting but got the attention of our mc, of course. The] loose, even defiant approach to narrative expectations can leave the novel feeling a bit slight, but that's a minor quibble. More books, vampire-themed or otherwise, could stand to feel this intimate. 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)We have here a vampire book that will scrub any trace of Twilightfrom 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 One of the most original vampire novels in ages, Claire Kohda’s Woman, Eating follows Lydia, a British, Japanese and Malaysian vampire struggling to survive. . . . Kohda has given Lydia a host of great vampire qualities, such as excellent night vision and an ability to experience the entire life of a creature by drinking its blood. But it’s Kohda’s exploration of Lydia’s inner world, the pain and longing she feels as an outsider, that makes Woman, Eating such a delicious novel.”