Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang | book review
A chef navigates survival, desire, and decadence in a smog-choked dystopian world
It happened again: I wanted a short palate cleanser and ended up reading a dystopian book. Let’s not psychoanalyse this.
Land of Milk and Honey is by C Pam Zhang, whose 2020 debut novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold was one of Obama’s favourite books of the year.
In this book, she returns to an arid setting. The narrator is an unnamed chef in her 20s an…
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