Winter Hunger: A Novel | 
pickI intended this to be my final read of 2023, but didn't quite get there, so it's become my first completed book of 2024 🥳
Set mainly in a snowbound Manitoba village, visiting anthropologist Alan Hopper is an unprepossessing manchild, completely self-absorbed, objectifyingly obsessed with his wife, and perpetually jealous of the attention she gives to their toddler son. He begrudges his wife's friendships within the local community, and has a ⬇️
Bookwomble ... supercilious, condescending attitude towards the people he's come to study for his PhD dissertation. Ironically, he gets caught in a psychosexual obsession involving the folklore of the Windigo, the cannibalistic spirit of loneliness, freezing cold, famine and starvation. Given these themes, the horror and suspense is less whether somebody will be eaten, than whose body it will be. 😋🍖🤢 12mo
TrishB He sounds like fun… 12mo
Bookwomble @TrishB He wasn't, but once you realise he's not meant to be it makes the reading easier. 12mo