The Thick and The Lean

Chana Porter

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781803366180
• eBook ISBN: 9781803366197
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Science Fiction

From the acclaimed author of The Seep, comes a provocative and astonishing new novel where three women from a strange new world seek to break free of a society that wants to constrain their attitudes to food, sex and their own bodies.Inthequaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God.But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She cravestheforbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leavetheonly community she has known.Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship inthebig city. A flawless student, she is set up for success... until her school pulls her funding, leaving her to face either a mountain of debt or a humiliating return home. But Reiko is done being atthemercy ofthesystem. She forges a third path—outside ofthelaw.Withtheguidance of a mysterious cookbook written by a kitchen maid centuries ago, Beatrice and Reiko each grasp for a life of freedom—something more easily imagined than achieved in a world dominated by catastrophic corporate greed.A startling fable oftheentwined perils of capitalism, body politics, andthestigmas women face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter's profound new novel exploresthereclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments