Eat My Heart Out

<p>&quot;Craving whatever she hasn't got and detesting whatever she has, Zoe Pilger's brilliant and psychically bulimic narrator is everyone's anti-Bridget Jones. An awareness of the pathology of romantic love, and a terror of what lies in its absence, lies at the heart of this brutally funny book.&quot; - Chris Kraus, author of <i>I Love Dick</i></p><p>&quot;Protagonist Ann-Marie wanders through London's glittery underground of Bright Young Artists, concussed by life itself. Pilger's love story fictionalizes her contexts so extremely that every adolescent romance - with art, feminism, even that gross dude she had a one night stand with - is only a deceptive form mobilized to assault neutered authority. A masochistic siren song - 100 percent more awesome than <i>The Little Mermaid</i>.&quot; - Trisha Low, author of <i>The Compleat Purge</i></p><p>Half-liberated, half-drunk, Anne-Marie is twenty-three, spiraling, and ironically detached when she meets Stephanie, a supremely serious, second wave feminist who becomes her mentor. Hilarious and unapologetic, this novel is a satirical look at the state of the post-post-feminist world and illuminates how - no matter what young women do - they are condemned for their sexual desires, career choices, and everyday philosophies.</p><p><b>Zoe Pilger</b> is an art critic for the <i>Independent</i>, winner of the 2011 Frieze International Writers Prize, currently working on her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. <i>Eat My Heart Out</i> is her first novel, and was published in the United Kingdom by Serpent's Tail to wide acclaim.</p>