The Thick and The Lean

In a world where abstaining from food brings one closer to God, two young womenuse the guidance of a mysterious cookbook written by a kitchen maid centuries agoto help them grasp for a life of freedom. something more easily imagined thanachieved in a world dominated by catastrophic corporate greed. A startling fable of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stigmaswomen face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter's profound new novelexplores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.