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Supper club : a novel / Lara Williams.

by Williams, Lara (Writer of Treats)

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Hamish Hamilton, 2019.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Secret societies -- Fiction.

Coming of age -- Fiction.

9780735237728 (trade pbk.)

292 p. ; 21 cm.

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 both in 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.

Black humor (Literature)

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