{"product_id":"woman-eating-by-claire-kohda","title":"Woman Eating by Claire Kohda","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond Hand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist\u003cbr\u003e'Blistering' Glamour\u003cbr\u003e'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki\u003cbr\u003e'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The Times\u003cbr\u003e'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi and ramen, onigiri and udon - the food her Japanese father liked to eat - but the only thing she can digest is blood. Yet Lydia can't bring herself to prey on humans, and sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her Malaysian-British mother for the first time and trying to build a career as an artist - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world, 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. Before any of this, however, she must eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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' LISA HARDING\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'What Stoker did for the vampire at the end of the nineteenth century, Claire Kohda does for for it in our own era' TLS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"U-turn Online Thrift Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48076278530235,"sku":"B0329","price":63.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/2483\/7819\/files\/IMG_3866_cropped.webp?v=1783495735","url":"https:\/\/shop.uturn.org.za\/products\/woman-eating-by-claire-kohda","provider":"U-turn Online Thrift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}