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 much of her time trying not to take up space. At almost
thirty, she is adrift and alienated from life. Stuck in her 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 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, the club is a
way to explore, discover, and push the boundaries of the space they take
up in the world--and reclaim it.
Yet as the club expands, growing both in size and rebellion, Roberta is
forced to reconcile herself to the desires 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.
