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BOOK SYNOPSIS

NATIONAL BESTSELLER / A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK / NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AND MORE!

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world...

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.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Grown-Ups

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ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Publish Date: Hardcover - September 06, 2023 / Paperback - September 24, 2024

Pages: 240

Dimensions: Hardcover - 6.21 x 0.87 x 9.34 inches | 2.31 pounds / Paperback - 7.9 X 5.1 X 0.6 inches | 0.4 pounds

Language: English

Type: Hardcover or Paperback

Condition: NEW