The Thick and the Lean

by Chana Porter

Book Overview

In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambe, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668000199
• ISBN13: 9781668000199
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: S&s/Saga Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"