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Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
(Riverhead Books, Literary/Speculative Fiction, September 2023)
Set sometime in the future, pollution has dramatically increased in the world, inducing significant changes in the climate and rendering most crops ungrowable. Food manufactured from gray mung bean flour is essentially just for sustenance, not flavor or enjoyment. So, when an opening for a chef at a highly secretive research community high in the mountains somewhere along the border of France and Italy appears, the narrator lies about who she