The Thick and the Lean Told from the alternating perspectives

Told from the alternating perspectives of Obiefuna and Uzoamaka

In Survival Is a Promise

Hélène Cixous

the lightness Obiefuna feels is quickly dashed when the two are caught sharing a moment of intimacy

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The Thick and the Lean Told from the alternating perspectivesNew remaindered copy, paperback In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porters decadent and richly imagined (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them. In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatirc Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flamb, marzipan. As