Supper club: a novel

✍ Scribed by Lara Williams

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; G. P. Putnams Sons
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 236 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, New York
• ISBN: 0525539603

✦ Synopsis

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites --and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?
Roberta spends her life trying not to take up space. At almost thirty, she is adrift and alienated from life. Stuck in a mindless job and reluctant to pursue her passion for food, she suppresses her appetite and recedes to the corners of rooms. But when she meets Stevie, a spirited and effervescent artist, their intense friendship sparks a change in Roberta, a shift in her desire for more. Together, they invent the Supper Club, a transgressive and joyous collective of women who gather to celebrate, rather than admonish, their hungers. They gather after dark and feast until they are sick; they break into private buildings and leave carnage in their wake; they embrace their changing bodies; they stop...

✦ Subjects

Women -- Fiction