- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781804959015
- Price: £14.00
Tell Me How You Eat
Food, Power and the Will to Live
Alicia Kennedy, author of NO MEAT REQUIREDIn Tell Me How You Eat, Amber Husain's witty, unsparing voice wraps her story around those of historic and contemporary figures in surprising and rich ways. The book reframes the way we eat not just as an embrace or refusal of the world, but as a plea for a better one
Ruby TandohA deeply-researched and original exploration of the nature of our appetites. Tell Me How You Eat is refreshingly thoughtful on the question not just of what we eat, but the under-explored how. Connecting matters of desire with literature, cultural history and social change, Husain shows us that eating is a personal and a political act and – sometimes – even radical
Asa SeresinTell Me How You Eat rewrites all received narratives of disordered eating, evading the binary of pathology entirely. Beautiful, confronting, and invigorating
About Amber Husain
Amber Husain is the author of Replace Me (2021) and Meat Love (2023). Her essays have been published in Granta, New Left Review, The White Review, The Believer, Bookforum LA Review of Books and New York Times Magazine. She has a PhD in art history from UCL and teaches critical and creative writing.
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