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Woman, eating : a novel / Claire Kohda.

Kohda, Claire, (author.).

Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063140882
  • ISBN: 0063140888
  • Physical Description: 233 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, [2022]
Subject: Hunger > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Vampires > Fiction.
Genre: Horror fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Vampire fiction.

Available copies

  • 16 of 16 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library FICTION KOHDA (Text) 50686016161643 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F KOH (Text) 33240004946391 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Koh (Text) 85131001821892 CACM Fiction Available -
Collinsville Community Library Adults KOH Fiction (Text) 34259000553042 Adult Area Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults KOH Fiction (Text) 34001001413515 Adult Area Available -
Gettysburg Library FIC KOHDA CLAIRE (Text) 35740635832884 Fiction Available -
Highland Community Library F KOH (Text) 35610000991476 HGHM Fiction Available -
Huntingdon County Library F KOH (Text) 30298100597214 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Kohda (Text) 39427103659256 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library FIC (Text) 30003009097047 Adult Fiction Available -

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