Leutogi: A Horror Story (Novels by H.T. Boyd)

May 2001. Manhattan socialite, Egret Covello, is dying to be skinny. When she hears whispers of an exotic tapeworm in the Australian Outback, Egret, accompanied by her microcephalic teenage son, Noah, sets out for the Land Down Under to get herself infected as soon as possible. As her date with a stomach parasite draws nearer, Egret is confronted by demons from her past, and a looming question; how much is she willing to give for the perfect body? Originally completed in 2018, Leutogi is a comedy-horror novel focused on body image and anorexia, it is the first novel by H.T. Boyd.