In Food Porn, the narrator is struggling to write her thesis on food porn, the sexualization of food imagery on social media, all while questioning the things she consumes and her relationships with other people through dubious, theoretical lenses. Fixated on food, the body, eating disorder, identity, and desire, Food Porn is an alternative campus novel that explores the possibility of love in a world where everything is always excessive yet unfulfilled.

“Food Porn is a decadently written and superbly controlled examination of what we consume and seek to consume, food or otherwise. With an essence of lyricism and the experimental delicately laced through the prose, Liu crisply intertwines form and thematic nuance, unlike the raisin that somehow still exists, into a narrative that is fresh, flavorful, and fierce in tone, voice, and direction. Where poetics meet the novel and the ‘I’ meets the self, we couldn’t get language this good if we smothered the page in honey. Liu commands that we chew on her words, long after the last page.” —Morgan Christie, author of Boolean Logic and Liddle Deaths

“Food Porn is an erudite and dark exploration of desire, consumption, body shame, the gap between hunger and satiation, and the ache for fulfillment in a world of excess. I'll never look at a social media food post the same way again thanks to this strange and delicious offering.” —Sara Rauch, author of XO

“I was moved by the level of care Liu shows towards language, one that is not dissimilar from the approach great chefs take towards a dish. With buoyant but unflinching prose, this book both induces and satisfies cravings, explores our digital and public relationship with consumption, and interrogates what it means to be satiated. A magnificent, well-plated debut.” —Tucker Leighty-Phillips, author of Maybe This Is What I Deserve