{"id":63425,"date":"2022-03-15T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63425"},"modified":"2022-03-15T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:00:29","slug":"woman-eating-by-claire-kohda-review-millennial-vampire-tale-with-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63425","title":{"rendered":"Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda review \u2013 millennial vampire tale with bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/mar\/14\/woman-eating-by-claire-kohda-review-millennial-vampire-tale-with-bite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Woman, Eating<\/strong><em><strong> by Claire Kohda review \u2013 millennial vampire tale with bite<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2022-03-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucyjpop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lucy Popescu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/mar\/14\/woman-eating-by-claire-kohda-review-millennial-vampire-tale-with-bite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 80%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2fa5d080bd977ebd39bb0172e014b052a894c84\/0_293_2048_1228\/master\/2048.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=4171e515865b2da478a8595a1d845ddf\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; display: block; width: 80%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">Claire Kohda: \u2018excellent at conveying Lydia\u2019s alienation and sense of powerlessness\u2019. <em>Photograph: Misha Gafarova<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debut novel<\/a> is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Claire Kohda\u2019s debut is memorable for the refreshing perspective of her conflicted heroine: a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vampire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vampire<\/a> of mixed ethnicity and recent art graduate. Lydia struggles to accept the demon inside her and yearns to love, live and eat like a human. Her father, a successful Japanese artist, died before she was born. Lydia has committed her mother, a Malaysian-English vampire in declining health, to a home in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margate<\/a> and accepted an internship with a contemporary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> gallery known as the Otter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Woman, Eating<\/em><\/a> opens with Lydia renting an artist\u2019s studio in a converted biscuit factory. She\u2019s shown around by the kind and friendly Ben, to whom she is immediately attracted. At the gallery, Lydia is given banal jobs cleaning labels off bottles and adding velvet pads to coat hangers in preparation for the next opening. Largely ignored by the staff, Lydia receives the unwanted attention of the director \u2013 cold, predatory Gideon \u2013 who, she learns, had collected her father\u2019s art. He stands in the shadows observing her, unaware that, as a vampire, Lydia can see him in the dark and the blood coursing through his veins. One day, passing on the stairs, he gropes her buttock. It\u2019s an act he\u2019ll later regret&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/mar\/14\/woman-eating-by-claire-kohda-review-millennial-vampire-tale-with-bite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This debut novel is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8,10],"tags":[33237,33254,2103],"class_list":["post-63425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-claire-kohda","tag-lucy-popescu","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63428,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425\/revisions\/63428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}