Another in the longstanding series I have dubbed “bodily horror, the Bear Grylls edition.” There’s a character–usually a woman–who is super hungry for reasons of famine or winter or New World (and frequently all three) and we’re meant to understand something about the Human Condition through the suffering and depravity to which the body sinks. See also: Vasterwilds, Lapvona, The Vegetarian, Tender is the Flesh, Glorious Exploits, Our Wives Under the Sea (yes, if you go back to my reviews of some of these you […]