Reading C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey” is like walking up to the finest buffet while a strict personal trainer eyeballs every morsel you put on your plate.
You want it, but you feel guilty for that wanting.
The novel is set in a world on the edge of dystopia. A terrible smog has ravaged the planet and food is scarce. That is unless you’re one of the lucky few who have escaped to an elite enclave at the top of a mountain that rises above the pollution choking the rest of the world — the world that cannot afford an escape…