Land of Milk and Honey
United States

Land of Milk and Honey

by C Pam Zhang

Society & Class Literary Fiction Sci-Fi 2024

Summary

In a world choked by smog, where crops are disappearing and food is becoming scarce, an unnamed young chef accepts a job at an isolated mountain estate reserved for the wealthy elite. Behind its borders, the sky is clear, rare ingredients flourish, and extravagant meals offer a taste of a world that no longer exists. Working for a mysterious benefactor and his enigmatic daughter, the chef discovers unexpected pleasures, forbidden desires, and unsettling truths about the people determined to survive at any cost. Sensuous and quietly dystopian, C Pam Zhang’s novel explores the morality of privilege, the politics of appetite, and the question of who deserves pleasure when the world is falling apart.

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C Pam Zhang
C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang is a Chinese-born American novelist whose work explores identity, migration, belonging, and the ways power shapes people’s lives. Born in Beijing, she moved to the United States as a young child and grew up navigating different cultural environments. Her debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold (2020), reimagines the American West through the experiences of two Chinese American siblings during the Gold Rush. The book received widespread acclaim, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Zhang’s second novel, Land of Milk and Honey (2023), blends speculative fiction with questions of environmental collapse, desire, and economic inequality. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Zhang has also published writing in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and McSweeney’s Quarterly.

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2024
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C Pam Zhang