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Who's qualified to save the world?

Jun 27, 2024 | elysian.press | Elle Griffin |C Zhang

It’s the near future and a smog has blotted out the sun. The world would have starved if it weren’t for the mung-protein-soy-algal flour distributed by the government—the only thing left to eat now that the crops and animals have died. This is the setting in In ’s novel Land of Milk & Honey, where one wealthy investor has purchased the last sunny mountaintop in Italy and leased the land to the investors who funded it.
8 Novels About Young Women Searching for Identity and Purpose Through Work

Mar 4, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Sarah Mathews |Kyle Lucia Wu |C Zhang |Lily King

According to CEO and psychologist Jessica Pryce-Jones, people spend 90,000 hours of their lifetimes at their jobs. Whatever form that profession takes, it’s inevitable that it will coincide with significant individual change. Work forces people to confront obstacles like office politics, autocratic managers, flaky colleagues, and productivity quotas, the tackling of which teaches them about who they are.
2023 fantasy, sci-fi and speculative fiction highlights

Dec 17, 2023 | readings.com.au | C Zhang |Kell Woods

It has been a bonza year for all things fantasy, sci-fi and speculative fiction! We've rounded up some of our favourite reads that include cozy fantasies, epic space operas, and multiple not-too-distant dystopias. Immortal Longings by Chloe GongEvery year, thousands flock to San-Er, the dangerously dense capital twin cities of the kingdom of Talin, where the palace hosts a set of deadly games.
Book Review: 'Land of Milk and Honey' hits all the bases of a dying world

Dec 15, 2023 | okcfriday.com | C Zhang

Land of Milk and Honeyby C Pam Zhang • • • • • C Pam Zhang has received high praises for her unusual talent of imagination, creation and power. She is a bestselling author as evidenced by her winning the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and becoming a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is also a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree and has been listed as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year.
Best Books of 2023: Fiction by Powell's Staff

Nov 17, 2023 | powells.com | Hilary Leichter |Ghassan Zeineddine |C Zhang |Lauren Groff

Best Nonfiction of 2023 | Best Graphic Novels of 2023 | Best Horror of 2023 | Best Romance of 2023 | Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2023 | Best Kids' and YA of 20232023 was such a great year for fiction! We had the hardest time narrowing down our list of the best fiction books of the year, but after much debate, we settled on these 23 (an appropriate number for 2023, we decided).
The Best Literary Fiction

Nov 3, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Lexie Smyth |Daniel Mason |C Zhang |James McBride

In a near future where food supplies are drying up, a chef is hired to work on a compound for the ultra rich, where everything is abundant, and her boundaries begin to devolve. This is a stunning novel about pleasure and privilege, but it is also a paean to the joys of food and eating. Embrace your appetite for reading with this delicious book. Meet C. Pam on our Poured Over podcast here.
LAND OF MILK AND HONEY

Oct 12, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | C Zhang

Eunice Wong performs this immersive novel about a female Asian American chef who is experiencing an apocalyptic event in Earth's near future. The unnamed narrator is unable to return to the U.S. after smog covers the globe, blocking the sunlight and killing most of the planet's plants and animals. To escape impending disaster, the chef takes a job cooking for a billionaire who lives in an isolated compound located on a mountaintop above the smog.
Land of Milk and Honey

Oct 7, 2023 | bookreporter.com | C Zhang

In several passages of the Torah, the Hebrews yearned for the land of milk and honey. It was a promised land of abundance, richness, safety, sweetness and healing. It was not an Edenic paradise, but close --- a space of both knowledge and peace. In her gorgeous new novel, C Pam Zhang takes this mythic place into a dystopian future of climate devastation, economic collapse and scientific experimentation.
Desire in a Dying World

Oct 5, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |C Zhang

The opening pages of C Pam Zhang’s second novel, Land of Milk and Honey, imagine a planet facing crisis after crisis—an extension of our own. Climate change has devastated the land: the Earth is covered in smog; crops have withered; countries are caving to famine. Zhang joins a number of other writers who have recently used their work to ask how to live in a dying world.
Why Do We Call Chicken ‘Chicken’ But Cow Meat ‘Beef’?

Oct 3, 2023 | eater.com | C Zhang

It was in 2010, in a shared kitchen at Cambridge University, that I first came to harbor a secret disdain for the semantic squeamishness of English-speaking meat-eaters. I was preparing raw chicken for dinner when a hallmate walked in. He, a sturdy, English-born student of Economics, stopped at the sight of me, and I had the distinct impression of having, once again, done something wrong.