Eating with My Mouth Open by Sam Van Zweden
Food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Not holding back from the struggles of mental illness and difficult conversations about weight and wellbeing, Sam Van Zweden advocates for a body politics that is empowering, productive and meaningful.
'Amazingly attuned to those tender points where food tangles with family, trauma, illness and mental wellbeing – Sam van Zweden describes everyday food moments with clarity and compassion in a way that made me fall in love with food all over again' — Ruby Tandoh, author of Eat Up!
‘Eating With my Mouth Open is a beautiful book: heartfelt, intelligent and full of love.’ — Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole and Small Acts of Disappearance;
‘This is writing as sustenance. The book’s moments of deep insight and intimacy, all its quiet revolutions, are answerable – as is the case with the most enduring nonfiction – to two gods only: truth and nurture.’ — Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic.
‘Eating With my Mouth Open is a beautiful book: heartfelt, intelligent and full of love.’ — Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole and Small Acts of Disappearance;
‘This is writing as sustenance. The book’s moments of deep insight and intimacy, all its quiet revolutions, are answerable – as is the case with the most enduring nonfiction – to two gods only: truth and nurture.’ — Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic.
Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, mental health and the body. Her writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, the Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Her work has been shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, the Lifted Brow and on/fictionLab Experimental Nonfiction Writing Prize, and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards. Eating with My Mouth Open won the 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781742236988 |
| ISBN 10 | 1742236987 |
| Title | Eating with My Mouth Open |
| Author | Sam Van Zweden |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | NewSouth Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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