Erotica Romance: Eat Me by Linda Jaivin
About The Book:
In this eye-popping first novel–a bestseller in both the United States and Australia–Linda Jaivin invites readers to overhear what women really talk about when they talk about sex.
When four bright, successful friends meet in Sydney’s designer cafés and restaurants to gossip about their romantic exploits, the talk sizzles. Julia, Chantal, Helen, and Phillipa are the best of friends. Professionally, their lives could not be more different, but whenever they get together, there are always plenty of intimate revelations to dish up and devour. Julia is a spunky photographer with a penchant for Peking duck and younger men; Chantal is a fashion magazine editor whose sexual preferences give new meaning to the words “mixing and matching”; Helen is a feminist scholar whose outward wholesomeness belies her inner naughtiness; and Phillipa is a somewhat secretive writer who appears to be taking rather close notes on her friends’ raunchy tales. This outrageous, irresistible, and utterly original debut, which led Entertainment Weekly to call Jaivin “one of the 100 most creative people in entertainment,” is the juiciest book you will read this year.
Bound to be controversial, this debut novel from a young Australian writer features four women friends discussing their sex lives and fantasies in frank detail. In doing so, they raise such issues as the difference between pornography and erotica, the role of gender politics in society, and what constitutes feminism. Along the way, Jaivin also manages to puncture many literary and critical pretensions. Her writing is often funny and satiric, and by layering stories she keeps the reader guessing about what is “real” and what is fantasy….
From Linda Jaivin’s Author site:
I’m the author of eleven books (seven novels and four book-length works of non-fiction including the Quarterly Essay Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World). My most recent novel is The Empress Lover, and my most recent non-fiction book is Beijing. Both were published in 2014.
Just as I love reading all kinds of books and essays, I also love writing across a great variety of forms and about a range of topics that include the arts, sexuality, politics and society. My essays frequently appear in The Monthly, and my short stories have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies.
