All Flesh: A Novel

A ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.

Bullied at school with near-hellish doggedness by cold-hearted classmates and fattened at home with increasingly extravagant feasts by an overindulgent father, the voracious narrator of All Flesh trudges through her teen years certain that her heft is because she has absorbed her twin sister in utero and is now eating, and living, for two.

As those around her look down on her corpulence, she...