The Thick and the Lean

This is the last remaining book nominated for a 2024 Speculative Fiction Lammy. The winner was I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself. I think it deserved to win. However, this would have been a very strong runner up. I was floored by the power of this novel. It's about a dystopian planet with capitalism run amok, where fat shaming has become engrained in the government and religion. Corporations and ministers convince people that to eat is to sin. The poor live on the ground, vulnerable to the rising seas while the super-rich live in towers. At first, I was rather put off by the book, but after about one hundred pages, I had bought into the premise. I was hooked.

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