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THE APPETITES OF GIRLS

Pamela Moses

The Appetites of Girls is an insightful debut novel about four women who meet as freshman roommates at a university, each with her own uncertainties about parents, bodies, food, and men. This is a universal story about the issues modern women face.

Self-doubting Ruth is coddled by her immigrant mother who uses food to soothe and control. Defiant Francesca believes her heavy frame shames her Park Avenue society mother and, to provoke her, consumes everything in sight. Lonely Opal longs to be included in her glamorous, adventure-seeking mother’s dinner dates—until a disturbing encounter forever changes her desires. And Setsu, a promising violinist, staves off conflict with her jealous older brother by allowing him to take away the choicest morsels from her dinner plate—and from her future. College brings the four young women together as suitemates, where their stories and appetites collide. Here they make a pact to maintain their friendships into adulthood, but each must first find her own strength and way in the world.

THE APPETITES OF GIRLS is an incisive and highly relevant novel. It is, ultimately, an examination of the intimate and sometimes destructive relationship that women have with both food and their own bodies, and how this influences so much else in their lives.

Pamela Moses earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Georgetown University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two young children. This is her first novel.

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Book Published 2014-06-26 by Amy Einhorn Books
Book Published 2014-06-26 by Amy Einhorn Books

Comments

I so enjoyed this intelligent novel. At times it seemed to double as a riveting sociological study as it delved into the complex relationship between women and food. An important book for our times—and for our friends, daughters, and ourselves.

THE APPETITES OF GIRLS is smart and tender and true. The characters have stayed with me ever since I turned the final page. Ruth, Francesca, Opal, and Setsu: I know these women because I’m one of them. We all are. We’re brave. We’re afraid. We’re loving. We’re destructive. We’re finding our way in a difficult world.

In this raw, thought provoking novel, Pam Moses offers poignant insights on the pressures young women face in today’s weight conscious world, expectations placed upon them by friends, family, and most significantly, the mirror. Through the voices of four college roommates, Moses brilliantly examines our emotionally charged relationship with food; what drives us to indulge and deprive, display and hide our deepest cravings. The stories of Ruth, Opal, Francesca, and Setsu are deeply affecting; each showcasing ways in which body image issues transcend class, age and race. Their shared struggle to discover and embrace their appetites will resonate with women of all ages, providing food for thought and nourishment for the soul.

he Appetites of Girls is the perfect title for this amazing novel that centers around four friends and how food defines their individual personalities and life choices. Pamela Moses’ debut novel will make you hungry for more.

Four girls go from childhood to suitemates in college and all of them are trying to discover who they are and what their appetites are: for food, for boys, for life. Read this and watch them grow and help each other along the way. What a great coming-of-age story for each of them. I couldn’t put this book down the deeper I got into it.

THE APPETITES OF GIRLS is comfort food in the form of a novel that weaves four women’s stories into a delicious and uplifting casserole of female friendship and the complicated relationships we all have with eating, life, and each other.

Perfect beach book ... worth your vacation time... This gorgeously written story maps the links between love and food as it follows four college roommates who grow into womanhood together.

Moses’s debut is perfectly timed for summer—it’s a beach read following the lives of four coeds who begin rooming together at Brown University in 1993. Read more...

Four college suitemates, each with her own frustrated desires, reunite at a baby shower. After 11 years, will any of them have found real happiness? Moses' debut novel thoughtfully evokes the interior lives of these women, distinguishing each with her unique heartbreaks. . . . A beautifully written . . . tale of women finding courage.

THE APPETITES OF GIRLS is a terrific novel. On one level, it’s a good read about four very human young female friends. On another level, it exposes and illuminates the ways in which women use food as a proxy weapon in battles with others and themselves. And, most hauntingly, it shows us how even young women with clear advantages (these girls are Ivy-Leaguers!) must struggle to recognize and accept their own intrinsic powers.

I think this is such an important novel for women to read. It is a vivid, multilayered portrayal of friendship and the earnest, often heartbreaking search for a true sense of self. I enjoyed it immensely.