The Thick and the Lean

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Price
$28.99  $26.96
Publisher
S&s/Saga Press
Publish Date
Pages
384
Dimensions
5.91 X 9.06 X 1.42 inches | 1.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781668000199

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About the Author
Heralded as "the new Philip K. Dick," Chana Porter is an author, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and cofounder of The Octavia Project, a STEM and writing program for girls, trans, and nonbinary youth that uses speculative fiction to envision greater possibilities for our world. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is also the author of The Seep, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her newest novel, The Thick and the Lean, was named Best Science Fiction of 2023 by The Times (London).
Reviews
"The Thick and the Lean flips our known world inside out and, in doing so, exposes familiar seams of subjugation--from purity culture to capitalist exploitation. Chana Porter is a brilliant engineer of speculative societies and vivid far-flung realms, but she is also an author who reminds us what matters most in our real lives: the urgency of living our highest truth. This novel is a feast of ideas I didn't want to end."--Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria
"Decadent and richly imagined, The Thick and the Lean topples expectations and skillfully re-maps vice and virtue, indulgence and shame as we know them. This book is wildly new and deliciously satisfying, and Porter is one of our moment's most original seers."--Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun