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Tender is the Flesh

Written by: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
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THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATION

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved. Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction World Literature Emotionally Gripping Scary
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The narrator is a repulsive hypocritical man, and the world it paints is grotesque and perverted. Theres not so much of a traditional plot, as a sequence of interactions which allow you to see a full scope of the consequences of this world, and allows you to compare it to our current society. What 1984 was to the red scare, It feels like this book is to late stage capitalism and the factory farm industry. I found myself going numb to alot of the body horror because its so abundant, and you definitely need a strong stomach. I did enjoy this book and reccomend it to those who are fans of political horror, that being said its disgusting and i never wanna read it again.

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I was never an avid reader in my younger years and it is now clear why. This book will ensnare you, believe me. The narrator is the icing on the cake(understatement). Don't leave this one on the back burner.

You may or may not regret your experience.

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really wasn't that exciting to me, very predictable and slow going. good narration though. not scary.

was recommended and told it was very twisted

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I like others was not expecting that kind of ending. I thought he loved Yasmine……..

DISTURBING

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As an enlightend man nothing else I have ever read speaks to the torture I experiance by dealing with you barbaric monsters in every day life.

what else could he do?

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