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Supper Club

Supper Club

by Lara Williams
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2020

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Named a Best Book of the Year:
Vogue * TIME * Real Simple * Kirkus Reviews

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

For fans of Sally Rooney's Normal People 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 apologizing. For these women, each extraordinary yet unfulfilled, the club is a way to explore, discover, and push the boundaries of the space they take up in the world. Yet as the club expands, growing in both size and rebellion, Roberta is forced to reconcile herself to the desire and vulnerabilities of the body--and the past she has worked so hard to repress. Devastatingly perceptive and savagely funny, Supper Club is an essential coming-of-age story for our times.

ISBN:
9780525539599
9780525539599
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
208.03x138.18x18.03mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Lara Williams

Lara Williams is the author of one short story collection, Treats, which was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Edinburgh First Book Award and the Saboteur Awards and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

She has contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, Vice, Dazed and others. Lara Williams lives in Manchester and Supper Club is her first novel.

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