In this episode of The Literary Spiral, I’m joined by author Sara Cooper to talk about her dark, hilarious, and deeply uncomfortable novel Ravenous: a biting satire of influencer culture, consumerism, body image, performative femininity, and motherhood in the age of social media.
We dive into the psychology behind Breigh, an unboxing influencer whose carefully curated online existence begins to unravel after she becomes pregnant. Sara and I talk about Breigh’s desperate need for validation, the strange and unsettling relationship she develops with her unborn baby, the pressure placed on women’s bodies during pregnancy, and what happens when motherhood itself becomes content.
We also get into the absurdity of influencer culture, #LiveBirth, eating makeup, capitalism, parasocial relationships, the ethics of family content, and the surprisingly lonely reality underneath Breigh’s increasingly unhinged behavior.
If you love weird-girl literature, complicated female protagonists, social horror, literary satire, female rage, and books that make you laugh before making you deeply uncomfortable, this conversation is for you.
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