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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AND MORE ! “One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year… fiendishly, deliciously fun."-- --NPR, "Books We Love" “It’s rare to read anything that feels this unique.” –GABRIELLE ZEVIN, " The award-winning author of A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original,
