Description: The poignant story of a vulnerable young woman, her lover, and the devastating disease that unites them and threatens to destroy them. A raw and sentimental journey into the dark world of hunger and denial.

Coy, delicate Ruth Simon has been living with a secret. When Joseph, her lover, pries into her diary, suspecting that she has been hiding part of herself from him, he is astonished by what he finds: a cool, devastating narrative of self-hatred and punitive retribution, the chronicle of Ruth's battle with food, her "unrequited hunger".

Eve's Apple is the powerful story of two young lovers bound together by an obsession that each of them struggles to master -- she with artful control, he with wrenching curiosity that drives him to the brink of despair. This beautiful, crisp, unforgettable first novel is an intricate meditation on the nature of hunger -- for food, for knowledge, and for love. No one will leave this surprisingly mature novel without having come closer to the mystery of appetite and the disorders that plague it.

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