Good Me Bad MeA Novel Author: Ali Land amazon.com Mother doesn’t always know best. Milly has just escaped an abusive household and is preparing to testify against the monster that is her mother. Her new foster family tries to help her prepare, but they’re dealing with their own problems. Milly is nervous to go to court to confront her mother. She has lived through the horrors carried out in in what her mother called her playground. ...
Tender Is The FleshAuthor: Agustina Bazterrica amazon.comshermans.com Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, published in 2020, imagines a world where a virus makes all animals deadly to humans, forcing humanity to turn to “special meat” harvested from humans. The story follows Marcos, a butcher wrestling with loss, grief, and a society that has re-learned how to name its victims. The novel interrogates language, dehumanization, and the ethics of survival. Bazterrica repeatedly shows how words reshape reality: “lava that’s cold and viscous” and “Nullify, he thinks, another world that silences the horror.” By renaming people as “heads,” the regime enforces a chilling bureaucratic cruelty. ...