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Bite Your Friends is at once a subversive autobiography and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power.

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"""Ravishing and provocative, Bite Your Friends is in an invitation into bodily power as well as a history of resistance, deviance and refusal of all kinds.""--Olivia Laing, author of Everybody and The Lonely City ""Fernanda Eberstadt is blessed with more gifts than any one writer should be...Her prose is exuberantly, obscenely rich.""--Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters and Flâneuse ""The book is totally thrilling, absorbing and true: on every page there is something to underline, ponder, exclaim about. Bite Your Friends is an adventure story of a unique kind, a book which defies classification. Part memoir, part manifesto, it is discursive, witty and wise. It's like having the best, most fascinating conversation: a book that you don't so much read as inhabit. I absolutely loved it. Eberstadt examines how - and whether - it is possible to elude the self our families create for us, and proposes radical and subversive escape routes. I was reminded of those signs on trains which say: Break Glass in an Emergency. I've never read anything like it. Bite Your Friends is simply extraordinary.""--Cressida Connolly, author of After the Party ""With a thrilling combination of erudition and wit, Fernanda Eberstadt takes us on a journey across decades, centuries, and millennia to explore the ways in which artists and activists have used the body as a site of political, religious, and personal resistance. Eberstadt unearths little known stories from antiquity and elegantly draws connections between these and contemporary examples, mapping a vast territory of ideas that are as captivating as they are convincing. Bite Your Friends is a knockout.""--Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing"

"""Ravishing and provocative, Bite Your Friends is in an invitation into bodily power as well as a history of resistance, deviance and refusal of all kinds.""--Olivia Laing, author of Everybody and The Lonely City ""Fernanda Eberstadt is blessed with more gifts than any one writer should be...Her prose is exuberantly, obscenely rich.""--Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters and Flâneuse ""With a thrilling combination of erudition and wit, Fernanda Eberstadt takes us on a journey across decades, centuries, and millennia to explore the ways in which artists and activists have used the body as a site of political, religious, and personal resistance. Eberstadt unearths little known stories from antiquity and elegantly draws connections between these and contemporary examples, mapping a vast territory of ideas that are as captivating as they are convincing. Bite Your Friends is a knockout.""--Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing"

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Fernanda Eberstadt was born in New York City. She has published five novels and one work of nonfiction, a memoir about her friendship with a family of Rom musicians in Southern France. She has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Vogue, and Granta, and is an editor at large for the European Review of Books. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages. She lives in Europe.

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