Nycteris also appears in your Twitter handle, is this all from a love of bats, MacDonald’s Victorian-era novel, or both?Īww, that made me laugh! I do like bats, but not that much. One of the epigraphs appearing in The Book Eaters comes from George MacDonald’s The Day and the Night Girl ( The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris). On the plus side, very few people are entirely and unapologetically bad. The best we manage is good to some other humans. People are complicated, life is a mess, and almost none of us are capable of being truly good all the time. It’s definitely a view I hold personally. Is this something fitting specifically for the novel, or would you view this as generally true for life? The vicar says something along these lines in the novel. Rather, it seems as though circumstances and limitations seem to create the badness, for simple ease or dire survival. The characters in The Book Eaters often do horrible things, but they don’t necessarily seem to be bad people. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all otherbook eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.Photo Credit: Richard Wilson of Richard Wilson Photography Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack romance novels are sweet and delicious. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope of queer identity and learning to accept who you are of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. "Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds".
Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all otherbook eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.
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