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Omnivores

Omnivores
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Available in: Paperback, eBook
  • Published: June 12, 2018
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… a bitingly funny look at the ugly face of consumerism, America as one big Home Shopping Network.
–The Atlanta Journal and Constitution

From the book jacket…

In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into sadism. As his schemes multiply, Estée’s bedridden mother, entranced by the glow of the shopping channel, remains oblivious to the escalating chaos. Estée manages to escape her childhood home only to find new horrors awaiting her in marriage and motherhood. In a climactic twist, her traumas take form in flesh and blood—a legacy of the voracious male appetites that have haunted her life.


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