Bite Your Friends

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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 Crudo 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

’“Thrilling, absorbing and true. It’s like having the best, most fascinating conversation: a book that you don’t so much read as inhabit. Bite Your Friends is simply extraordinary.”’ - Cressida Connolly, author of Bad Relations

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“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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“I loved this book. Often funny, unsparing of self as of others, Bite Your Friends is fuelled by genuine curiosity about what leads some to discount physical pain and transform their harmed bodies into instruments of communication. This curiosity is joined by intelligence, kindness, and a precision of observation which makes Eberstadt’s singular subjects knowable and, occasionally (though that is not the point) likeable.”

’ - Elizabeth Cook, author of Lux

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Fernanda Eberstadt was born in New York City in 1960. She graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Degree in English Language and Literature. She has published five novels and one non-fiction book about her friendship with a family of Rom musicians in Southern France. She writes cultural criticism for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Vogue, frieze, Salon, Granta, and Literary Hub, 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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