Appetites

Appetites

<div>In <I>Appetites</I>, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud’s famous question, “What do women want?” and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, bestselling author of <I>Drinking: A Love Story</I> and <I>Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs</I>, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman’s appetite—for food, love, work, and pleasure—has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers—and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying “I want.”<BR> Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, <I>Appetites</I> beautifully—and urgently—challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.<br></div>