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A review by rosepoints
Supper Club by Lara Williams
1.0
this painfully and obviously reads as a thin woman writing about being fat and for a book that claims to celebrate female bodies, the main character, roberta, constantly talks about being gorgeous when she was thin, hiding her belly, body-checking, and comparing herself to other bodies when she gains weight.
in addition, there's little focus on the actual titular supper club, and the women feel shallow and ancillary to roberta's traumas. roberta herself seems to have so much internalized misogyny, and i don't feel like the supper club was "a transgressive and joyous collective of women who gather to celebrate, rather than admonish, their hungers" at all, whatsoever. roberta's relationship with stevie also reads as a rip-off of sally rooney's "conversations with friends" but at least in rooney's edition, there was actual credence lent to the queer nature of it and not the tokenization that appears in "supper club." also, the misgendering of a trans character really turned me off.
where is the sisterhood! where are the female friendships! where is the reclamation of self and hunger! instead of any of what it promises to deliver, this book ends up centering insufferable men and body image. total pass, would not recommend.
in addition, there's little focus on the actual titular supper club, and the women feel shallow and ancillary to roberta's traumas. roberta herself seems to have so much internalized misogyny, and i don't feel like the supper club was "a transgressive and joyous collective of women who gather to celebrate, rather than admonish, their hungers" at all, whatsoever. roberta's relationship with stevie also reads as a rip-off of sally rooney's "conversations with friends" but at least in rooney's edition, there was actual credence lent to the queer nature of it and not the tokenization that appears in "supper club." also, the misgendering of a trans character really turned me off.
where is the sisterhood! where are the female friendships! where is the reclamation of self and hunger! instead of any of what it promises to deliver, this book ends up centering insufferable men and body image. total pass, would not recommend.