“But she’s not meat, she’s my daughter, Gabriel says inside, screams inside, can’t stop screaming about inside. Exactly, you say back to him.”
Goosebumps! And also I’m really intrigued with the undertone of veganism in this novel, as a vegan myself. This line reminded me of The Sexual Politics of Meat.
I’m pretty sure Alice is meant to be a mess of internalised misogyny and undiagnosed anorexia, and Kuang is making a critique through her: she’s academia’s I’m-not-like-other-girls final boss.