“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 ... Read more "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 Show Less