{"product_id":"a-carnivores-inquiry-9780802142009","title":"A Carnivore's Inquiry","description":"Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject.\u003cbr\u003eWhen we meet Katherine, the winning-and rather disturbing-twenty-three-year-old narrator, she has just left Italy and arrived in New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She soon strikes up an affair with a middle-aged Russian  migr  novelist she meets on the subway, and almost immediately moves into his apartment. Katherine's occasional allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical father suggest a somberness at the center of her otherwise flippant and sardonic demeanor. Soon restless, she begins journeying across the continent, trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine takes to meditating on cannibalism in literature, art, and history. The story races toward a hair-raising conclusion, while Katherine and the reader close in on the reasons for both her and her mother's fascination with aberrant, violent behavior.\u003cbr\u003eA brilliantly subtle commentary on twenty-first-century consumerism and Western culture's obsession with new frontiers, A Carnivore's Inquiry is an unsettling exploration of the questionable appetites that lurk beneath the veneer of civilization.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328365302034,"sku":"9780802142009","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e032ba0-f02a-43a9-a59d-5b4a976914c0.jpg?v=1727737251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-carnivores-inquiry-9780802142009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}