PRE-ORDER Caly recommends ... All Flesh by Ananda Devi

An utterly beautiful, witty and grotesque commentary on beauty standards, sexuality and consumerism. Following a teenage girls complex relationship with food, desire and her ever-expanding body as she is tormented by the world around her and haunted by her twin sister who she absorbed in utero, this is a brilliantly baffling, curious and urgent tale. Full of body-horror aswell as poetry, reading this was a very special experience that left me speechless.

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A child is born with an insatiable hunger. As a ravenous infant she is the undoing of her mother; under her father's adoring gaze, her body grows and grows. Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb.

Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge. Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.