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Why You Should Read The Meatgirl Whatever by Kristin Hatch

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This book is so good that I’m afraid of writing an essay about it because essays are kind of this fake vehicle for the essayist to sound/feel clever about herself and how she noticed this or that pattern in whatever book and ignored passages x or y that really don’t fit with said pattern and maybe things are supposed to be messy and cryptic and unknowable and that’s the beauty of it all, whatever “it” is. Thus:

1. From “Meatgirl Training Shift #1”

open your mouth wide.

your eater should see fur down your throat.

you have to stay like this as long as he eats.

sometimes after they try to throw the bones in your mouth.

don’t get mad.

they think we like it, like they’re telling us we’re doing good.

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