A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world'A startling prose hymn to food and sex, love and violence' GUARDIAN'Unique, ambitious, haunting' GABRIELLE ZEVIN'Truly exceptional' ROXANE GAY'Superb' DOUGLAS STUARTA smog has spread, food is disappearing, and a chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony: an experiment in a new way of living and eating. There, her mysterious employer and his visionary ...