The Edible Woman

Synopsis

The novel that put the bestselling author of the handmaid's tale and the testaments on the literary map. The booker prize winner's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. Marian mcalpin is an “abnormally normal” young woman, according to her friends. A recent university graduate, she crafts consumer surveys for a market research firm, maintains an uneasy truce between her flighty roommate and their prudish landlady, and goes to parties with her solidly dependable boyfriend, peter.