Zehra Akyel’s Reviews > The Vegetarian > Status Update

A scream is lodged in my throat, a scream that I’ve kept inside me for all this time. It’s because of the meat. I ate too much of it. All those lives, all that meat … The lives still cling to my insides. Their lives, still shimmering. It’s hard to describe. The more I think about it, the more the lump in my chest feels like a screaming mouth.