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Notes From Your Bookseller

Prepare to be disturbed to your core by the sickening dystopia in which our characters are trapped and the depths of depravity they’ll reach.

Translated from the original Spanish by Sarah Moses.

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to sti...

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