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Land of Milk and Honey
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ISBN10: 0593538250
ISBN13: 9780593538258
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Sep 24 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593538258
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Sep 24 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world, from the award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE NYPL YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, AND SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year... fiendishly, deliciously fun.--San Francisco Chronicle A profound exploration of human nature, the allure of pleasure and the choices we make in the face of adversity.--NPR, Books We Love
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef's boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.
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