Milk Teeth

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Milk Teeth explores what happens when the protagonist presses up against those norms, begins to dismantle all her learned behaviours, all her shame, and begins the process of articulating her desires. Huvudkaraktären är tyvärr rätt tråkig, smal och snygg med stora bröst (påpekas ofta) alla killar vill ha henne, men hon har skilda föräldrar och en ätstörning och det gör att hon inte kan va ihop med den här killen som är jättekär i henne och vill att hon ska bo i Barcelona med honom. When a copy of Milk Teeth was in my postbox on Friday morning I honestly felt like I’d won the lottery and had to explain to my parents who were looking at me with rather great levels of concern what this book was and why I was so worked up over it.

Our heroine does have a messy life - don't we all - but it's presented here in a way that sees truth pouring off every page. The plot is non-chronological, flipping between our unnamed protagonist’s present and past relationships as she attempts to come to terms with her own wants from life.not to mention the relationship between the protagonist and her boyfriend - this couple has the worst communication skills in the world? Something that feels greedy, rapacious, in its demand for both your attention and the full spectrum of your emotional intellect. You can hear the sounds of the various city environments; you can feel the somehow simultaneous discomfort and ecstasy of being embodied; most of all, the descriptions of food are so palpable as to be some of the standout linguistic passages.

Comparing herself to the others she observes ‘the way they wanted so openly, without trying to hide it. there has never been an author so transformative whose work seems to encompass exactly where i am in my life and exactly what i need at the time. Andrews’s writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O’Brien. eventually, the two move to barcelona, where a fresh environment unlocks a new sense of buried fears, particularly regarding body image and food.much of andrews' skill lies in her ability to subvert our expectations and challenge us with devastatingly sharp, sporadic sentences laden with rich, lyrical images, metaphors and motifs that immediately disarm us emotionally. Addressed in second person to the narrator's lover, the writing is gilded with a vulnerable immediacy, blisteringly honest and visceral. A story set between two cities but written with such smoothness you’re wrapped up in the narrative and taken on a journey through our main character's life that the location and change in the timeline aren’t difficult to keep up with at all. The heat of Barcelona and the warmth of the romance and emotions between our two main characters juxtapose so well with the coldness of London and the fear and loneliness felt as well as the sadness, anxiety and negative but entirely overpowering view and perception of food, body image, and eating. She’s also been surrounded by diet culture, including miss “oh wow that’s so lovely” Cassie from Skins and being taught that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”.