Chinese Americans -- Fiction. |
Dystopias -- Fiction. |
Elite (Social sciences) -- Fiction. |
Food -- Fiction. |
Food supply -- Fiction. |
Pleasure -- Fiction. |
Social classes -- Fiction. |
Women cooks -- Fiction |
Dystopian fiction |
Psychological fiction |
Science fiction |
Fantasy fiction. |
Chinese Americans -- United States |
Anti-utopias |
Elites (Social sciences) |
Foods |
Primitive societies -- Food |
Food control |
Class distinction |
Classes, Social |
Rank |
Science -- Fiction |
Science -- Juvenile fiction |
Science stories |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY , KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AND MORE!
"One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year... fiendishly, deliciously fun."-- San Francisco Chronicle
"A profound exploration of human nature, the allure of pleasure and the choices we make in the face of adversity." --NPR, "Books We Love"
"It's rare to read anything that feels this unique." -GABRIELLE ZEVIN, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
" Land of Milk and Honey is truly exceptional."-ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist
" A sharp, sensual piece of art."-RAVEN LEILANI, New York Times bestselling author of Luster
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Zhang's exquisite and seductive second novel (after How Much of These Hills Is Gold) centers on an unnamed chef, 29, who is trying to survive in the wake of an environmental catastrophe that wreaked havoc on the earth's biodiversity. Raised in Los Angeles by a single immigrant mother, the chef chased complex flavors and busy kitchens since she was 19. But when the disaster decimated kitchen ingredients and shuttered borders, she was left cooking with years-old fish and bioengineered flour: "Chef had lost its meaning... like fresh." In a desperate attempt to change her surroundings, she takes a head chef position at a secretive food research community on the mountainous Italian-French border, which holds a surprising storeroom with the world's last strawberries, Parmigiano, and boar meat. Her transition to cooking for investors she cannot meet is difficult--she has no access to the outside world and she can't stomach the rich food. But she becomes preoccupied with Aida, the boss's mischievous 20-year-old daughter, who shows up to test her cooking. Aida and her father see their facility as the planet's last hope, and the chef soon learns that her role extends beyond food to enabling a world that caters to their ambition. Wrestling with her desire for both excitement and stability, the chef must squash the inner voice that asks, "Hadn't I meant to feed anyone else?" Emotionally captivating and raw, this masterpiece will be enjoyed to the last bite. Agent: Bill Clegg, Clegg Agency. (Sept.)
Kirkus Review
Climate disaster provides both setting and a sense of urgency to Zhang's second novel. "I fled to that country because I would have gone anywhere, done anything, for one last taste of green sharp enough to pierce the caul of my life." A cloud of smog has enveloped the Earth, hiding the sun and killing most of the planet's food crops. A young chef takes a job at an "elite research community" perched atop an Italian mountain. Her employer is enigmatic and unnerving. His daughter is brilliant and headstrong. And the chef soon discovers that she is imprisoned in a simulacrum of paradise bound by secrets and ghosts. But, as she cooks lavish meals for those who can afford to escape the smog, she has access to crème fraîche, strawberries, and a French breed of chicken that should be extinct. To say that the narrator represents the moral center of this universe is not to say that she is incorruptible. This is, among other things, a story of what survival looks like in a world riven by gross inequality, and the narrator's choices are driven by self-interest. Often, those choices come with a side order of self-loathing--a familiar dynamic for many participating in late capitalism. None of this, however, should suggest that Zhang has written a manifesto. Instead, she reminds us of what it's like to be embodied and living on Earth with sumptuous scenes of food and sex. Zhang earned bountiful accolades--including being longlisted for the Booker Prize--for How Much of These Hills Is Gold (2020), and her skills have only increased since she wrote her stunning debut. Mournful and luscious, a gothic novel for the twilight of the Anthropocene Era. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
This might be how the end begins. Near-global smog leads to the occlusion of the sun. Under these harrowing conditions, the 29-year-old narrator, a disappointment to her Chinese immigrant mother, lands a job as a cook in an exclusive institution atop an Italian mountain. A megarich entrepreneur, with the help of his daughter, Aida, is clinging to the last food bounties. As chef, the narrator has to spin one impressive dish after the other to satiate hungry investors. But she soon finds that her role, including her relationship with Aida, has morphed. And the locals are battering down the ramparts for a slice of the Edenic pie. Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold, 2020) paints an image of the promised land of milk and honey that saturates the senses. Practically every sentence is gold; for instance, "The simmer of her rage was intoxicating, heady, the surface of a broth about to boil and release its pungent scent," Zhang writes of Aida. The narrator struggles to reconcile her new world with the one she left behind even as she is consumed by her appetites for food, for love, for survival. Ending on a hopeful note, this sumptuous feast is an absolute marvel. Savor every delicious morsel.
Library Journal Review
An impenetrable smog has taken over most of the planet, obliterating crops and leaving most people with nothing but nutritious (but tasteless) mung bean powder as sustenance. Amid the chaos, a young chef is offered an opportunity she can't pass up--the chance to move to a mountaintop unimpacted by the smog and cook for the richest of the rich. After a trial period during which the chef is able to use ingredients the likes of which she hasn't seen in years--fresh meats, green vegetables, and strawberries bursting with ripeness--she is offered a full-time position, though she soon finds that the opportunity is not without its complications. Eunice Wong's narration is a triumph, capturing the unsettling atmosphere of this rarified world and communicating the chef's growing unease as she begins to understand her employer's sinister vision and just how far he's willing to go. Her portrayal of the chef's layered emotions stuns as the novel explores themes of power, access, and ethics. VERDICT Zhang's sophomore novel (following the multi-award-winning How Much of These Hills Is Gold) is as delicious to devour as the feasts prepared within.--Whitney Bates-Gomez