Land of Milk and Honey

NATIONAL BESTSELLER<BR><BR>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK <BR><BR>Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award<BR>Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award<BR>Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction<BR>Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize<BR><BR>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AND MORE!<BR><BR>“One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year… fiendishly, deliciously fun."—San Francisco Chronicle<BR><BR>"A profound exploration of human nature, the allure of pleasure and the choices we make in the face of adversity.”—NPR, "Books We Love"<BR><BR>“It’s rare to read anything that feels this unique.” –GABRIELLE ZEVIN, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow<BR><BR>"Land of Milk and Honey is truly exceptional."–ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist<BR><BR>“A sharp, sensual piece of art.”–RAVEN LEILANI, New York Times bestselling author of Luster<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.