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The Thick and the Lean
Chana Porter
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R452
R381
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The Seep (Paperback)
Chana Porter
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R200
R164
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Plus never-before-seen short story featuring an expanded ending to
the novel... Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman
whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but
nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The
Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls,
hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be
imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live
blissfully under The Seep's utopian influence-until Deeba begins to
imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will
give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seeptech to make
this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving
Trina devastated. Heartbroken and deep into an alcoholic binge,
Trina follows a lost boy she encounters, embarking on an unexpected
quest. In her attempt to save him from The Seep, she will confront
not only one of its most avid devotees, but the terrifying void
that Deeba has left behind. A strange new elegy of love and loss,
The Seep explores grief, alienation, and the ache of moving on.
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.
In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining
from food brings one closer to God. Â But Beatrice Bolano is
hungry. She craves the forbidden: 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
leave the only community she has known. Â
Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college
tech scholarship in the big 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 at the mercy
of the system. She forges a third path—outside
of the law.  With the guidance 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. Â A startling fable
of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics,
and the stigmas women face for appetites of every kind,
Chana Porter’s profound new novel
explores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary
act.
In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter's highly anticipated new
novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each
break free of a society that wants to constrain them. In the quaint
religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer
to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden:
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 leave
the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left
her modest roots for a college tech scholarship in the big 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 at the mercy of
the system. She forges a third path--outside of the law. With the
guidance 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 of the
entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stigmas women
face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter's profound new novel
explores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.
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