AB8: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
JD and Mallory are back for Episode 8 of AudiYOOObooks to talk about Agustina Bazterrica's Tender Is the Flesh. A brutal dystopian novel about cannibalism, capitalism, dehumanization, and how easily people can learn to live inside a monstrous system.
JD and Mallory dig into the book's use of language to erase personhood, factory farming and capitalism, propaganda, class, poverty, the normalization of cruelty, and the uncomfortable question at the center of the novel: how much injustice will people accept when their own comfort depends on it?
Plus: is Tender Is the Flesh actually horror? How…
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