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A review by alexisparade
Headcheese by Jess Hagemann
2.0
I feel like I would’ve loved this book when I was 17, but as an adult I mostly just rolled my eyes a lot. I saw that the author cites Chuck Palahniuk as a major influence, and it was just like…yeah…I can tell.
I also saw that the author did a 2019 interview where the host tried to bring up the fatphobia in the book - specifically the section where the author talks in first person about being disgusted by a man at her gym because he’s fat. It’s a pretty noticeably weird section in a book that’s ostensibly about amputation and challenging the desirability of different bodies etc etc. The author clearly wasn’t ready to be challenged on this point, but unfortunately the host seems nervous to actually push too hard about it, so it just ends up making for an exTREMEly uncomfortable ten minutes of podcast listening that left me pretty unimpressed with the author. It’s episode 18 of TheBodPod, time stamp ~38 minutes in if you’re interested.
I also saw that the author did a 2019 interview where the host tried to bring up the fatphobia in the book - specifically the section where the author talks in first person about being disgusted by a man at her gym because he’s fat. It’s a pretty noticeably weird section in a book that’s ostensibly about amputation and challenging the desirability of different bodies etc etc. The author clearly wasn’t ready to be challenged on this point, but unfortunately the host seems nervous to actually push too hard about it, so it just ends up making for an exTREMEly uncomfortable ten minutes of podcast listening that left me pretty unimpressed with the author. It’s episode 18 of TheBodPod, time stamp ~38 minutes in if you’re interested.