poll: What would you like to read January through March? You can only select one answer on GR polls, so if there are not 3 clear winners we can just do runoff polls for February/March.
Please vote only if you will return to discuss. The discussions open on the 1st of the month, so our first book from this selection can be read anytime before then. See you there! —> people who voted for: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
2020, 209 pages, 3.82 stars
At library, $23.99 Kindle, print starting at $7.66
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Please vote only if you will return to discuss. The discussions open on the 1st of the month, so our first book from this selection can be read anytime before then. See you there! —> people who voted for: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
2020, 209 pages, 3.82 stars
At library, $23.99 Kindle, print starting at $7.66
"Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved."
