Swallow

Reviews / Votes

?A warm and thoroughly researched portrait."
?The Washington Post



?Cappello ? brings a psychoanalytic richness to her understanding of ingestion and dentition."
?The Guardian



?[Cappello] packs her story with surprising imagery and extravagant lyricism, taking a highly literary approach on the subject."
?Salon



?One odd, and oddly haunting, book."
?Macleans



"Swallow is a surprising and original work. It is biography on the slant, a meditation that transcends boundaries and genres, written with scholarship, humor, and panache. I urge you to take this journey."
?Ricky Jay


"[Cappello's] writing style is wistful, wacky, and wise. . . . Swallow is a strange and alluring work of musings and medical history. . . . Occupying a curious position between Ripley's Believe It or Not and riveting biography, this book is something special."
?Tony Miksanek, MD, JAMA



"A wonderful and bizarre book: gorge yourself on it, and gulp."
?Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic



"Cappello's fine writing creates a book that goes down very easy."
?Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review