Pink Slime

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A harrowing, intimate novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them teeters on the edge-marking an award-winning Latin American author's US debut. "Evocative, dreamlike, and immersive...The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." -Esquire • "An intimate, melancholic look at an ecologically ravaged future." -Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic and Silver Nitrate In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford-a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents ...