Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel

Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel
Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel
Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel

This title has a release date of April 12, 2022. See below for more information.

Written by: Claire Kohda

Publisher: HarperVia

Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel Release Date

Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel releases April 12, 2022

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April 12, 2022

Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel Release Date

Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel released on April 12, 2022.

Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel Synopsis

A Best Book of 2022 in Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail, and Thrillist

“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

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.

Lydia is hungry. She’s always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside – the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can’t eat any of these things. Her body doesn’t work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs’ blood in London – where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time – is much more difficult than she’d anticipated.

Then there are the humans – the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can’t bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for – perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality – but she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry – always hungry.

As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her – between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans – if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat.

Genre: Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Suspense, Supernatural, Thriller, Women's Fiction

Claire Kohda
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