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The thick and the lean / Chana Porter.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781668000199
  • ISBN: 1668000199
  • Physical Description: 374 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Saga Press edition
  • Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2023.
Subject:
Women cooks > Fiction.
Fasting > Religious aspects > Fiction.
Women college students > Fiction.
Cookbooks > Fiction.
Women > Social conditions > Fiction.
Food habits > Fiction.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.

Available copies

  • 16 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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