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Tender Is the Flesh
A Horror Novel by Agustina Bazterrica
Subgenres:
- Dystopian,
- Psychological Horror,
- Speculative Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Dystopian food futures where humans become livestock
- Slow-burning moral unraveling through forbidden personal bonds
- Bleak reflections on loss and what remains human
From Little Stack
As climate change affects us more and more, I think it’s natural to wonder what we might eat if our food supply dwindled. In a dystopian future, it might be people. Marcos works at a factory harvesting people, though, it’s been rebranded as “special meat”. When he’s given a live specimen, a woman named Jasmine, he can’t help but see her as more than meat. Only, his wife has a different kind of hunger. The kind of ache food won’t fill. And perhaps it’s only Jasmine who can give her what she truly wants.
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now, eating human meat—"special meat"—is legal.
Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he's given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he's aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
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