Why not transform stigma into triumph? How can we turn the body into a weapon of resistance? How can we grow old in a society based on appearances? Novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt (New York, 1960) attempts to answer these and many other questions in Bite your friends (Bite your friends in the Spanish edition of Gatopardo (Ediciones). And she does so by drawing inspiration from the Greek philosopher Diogenes, the Christian martyrs Saints Perpetua and Felicidad, the French philosopher Michel Foucault, and the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others. There is another protagonist who opens and closes the book, Fernanda's mother: Isabel Nash Eberstadt, journalist, writer, and muse of Andy Warhol.