What Fiction are you reading this week, January 21, 2024?

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1. Land of milk and honey/C Pam Zhang

About a quarter way in and confused.

Mediocre American chef stranded in England as borders close against environmental disaster and famine.

She lusts after foods that are now extinct like just about everything except for govt engineered ‘flour’.

The writing feels thin and teases with bits of backstory and suddenly appearing details. Like the cat. How did she travel all over the world with a cat?

So, she is hired to chef for mysterious gadzillionaire who has all foods of mankind in his remote mountain castle.

As she gourmet chefs for scary dude, her own appetite disappears.

So far I’m not feeling it.

Obama had her first book ‘how much of these hills is gold’ on his best of list. Maybe I’ll give it a try.