NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Finalist for the New York Public Library
Young Lions Fiction Award Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award Longlisted for the Carol
Shields Prize Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 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.
