At Lit Hub she tagged ten books for fans of Sinners, the 2025 American musical horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. One title on the list:
Claire Kohda’s Woman, EatingRead about the other entries on the list.
This contemporary vampire novel also finds echos of colonialism in Dracula’s fangs. Lydia is a “frustrated foodie” who yearns to eat the Japanese cuisine of her father’s homeland. But she can’t stomach anything but blood, due to being undead.
This literary fiction is concerned with thwarted desires, and finely depicts a person straddling several identities while feeling at home in none. Like Coogler, Kohda also does a lot of mixing around the usual lore.
Woman, Eating is among Isabelle McConville's eleven greatest recent bloodsucking books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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