Pink slime a novel
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 unk...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
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2024.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows--even if staying means being left behind. |
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| Physical Description: | 222 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781668049778 1668049775 |
| Author Notes: | Heather Cleary, a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, is a translator of poetry and prose from Spanish whose work has been recognized by the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, the National Book Foundation, English PEN, and the International Booker Prize, among others. The author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction , she holds a PhD from Columbia University and is currently writing a novel about translation and betrayal. |
