Tender Is the Flesh

In today’s podcast, Sally shares a strange, unsettling story by Argentinian writer Agustina Maria Bazterrica. Tender Is the Flesh is a dystopian novel set in a society where a virus has made animal meat poisonous, leading to the legalization of human consumption. The story follows Marcos, a worker in a human processing plant, as he grapples with the moral and emotional implications of his job, especially when he is given a live "specimen" to care for. Find this title in the FVRL collection: https://fvrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S21C1857259