Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling games the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko

the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter proffers tantalising glimpses of island life and helps her to taste as much of cuisine as her larger-than-life appetite can bear

They have grown up in the village

After failing out of her interior design program and the disaster that was her short-lived marriage

these long poems that feel dreamy because they are so lyrical' Boston Globe

Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling games the young novelist Aoyama ChizukoDATE OF RELEASE: 22 OCT 2026 Beatrice is a broodmother: a vampire responsible for nursing newly made fledglings through the first years of their unlife. She nests in an abandoned, isolated warren of office space beneath her patron's skyscraper, raising two fractious fledglings. But when she decides to take on a third fledgling, Beatrice finds herself strained by her own ravenous hunger her body is changing too, transforming her into something even