Tender is the Flesh: A boundary-pushing dystopian novel

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How do you feel about consuming human meat? This is just one of the many questions dystopian horror novel Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica will have you asking yourself. The events are set in a world where a deadly virus has spread among animals, forcing people to look for other forms of protein. In turn, human meat comes into the equation — normalizing cannibalism and birthing a new industry of human livestock becomes the order of the day. The story follows morally-questionable Marcos, who works at one of the local meat processing plants. After he receives a high-quality female (made for consumption) and weighs his options on what to do with her (spoiler alert: he makes all the wrong choices). The novel will leave you in a trance with a hundred moral dilemmas. Readers, take note that the book is accompanied by a long list of trigger warnings, which we recommend you look through before picking up the novel.