Brunette Russians

Recently, we demolished Carmen Maria Machado’s triumphant and strange first tale collection, Her Body along with other events, after which straight away lent it to my mom. She browse the story, ‘Eight Bites’. It had been about bariatric surgery, the horror and insidiousness of diet tradition, plus the hard relationships between moms and daughters and siblings, meals and fat.

Into the tale the caretaker attempts to slim down by just consuming eight bites of every meal. (altro…)