Land of Milk and Honey, by C Pam Zhang
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite. (Penguin Random House)
C Pam Zhang is the author of two bestselling novels, How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. Zhang is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and the American Library in Paris. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her work has been translated into twelve languages. (cpamzhang.com)
Meeting Info
Wednesday August 6th, 2025
6:30-8 PM
Location: 350PDX Office, 3639 N Mississippi Avenue
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Light refreshments and drinks (including beer + wine), potluck style!
Email us at books@350pdx.org if you have any questions.
The 350PDX Climate Book Club is a place for anyone interested in the climate justice movement to come together and talk about the most important books of our time. We meet every month, usually the first Wednesday, from 6:30pm-8pm, and alternate between virtual and gathering in the 350PDX Office (although this sometimes changes, so doublecheck). We alternate between fiction and non-fiction.
