The Thick and the Lean
A Novel
New York : Saga Press, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Description: 374 pages ; 24 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Women cooks -- Fiction.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Fiction.
Women college students -- Fiction.
Cookbooks -- Fiction.
Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Food habits -- Fiction.
Women cooks -- Fiction.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Fiction.
Women college students -- Fiction.
Cookbooks -- Fiction.
Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Food habits -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781668000199