I've read so many vampire books lately that I feel like I could write a dissertation about how the trope is used! 😂
In Woman, Eating, vampirism means a life of loneliness for our MC. Lyd has been taught to intentionally lose friends and distance herself from humans. She has been told she's unworthy of good food, she absolutely has an eating disorder, and her mom believes their condition is a curse passed down from colonizers in their lineage. Lyd’s vampirism disconnects her from her father’s humanity and his Japanese heritage. This is very much a new adult story, and Lyd is out on her own for the first time. It’s very weird, which I love, and I think does a great job of capturing how lost the MC feels.