Conflict arises when a business contact gifts Marcos a head of First Generation Pure special meat. The story follows Marco, a sort of representative for a prominent meat processing plant. Thankfully, this virus did not affect humans, so we were able to survive by eating other humans. For some reason, scientists insisted that people still need to eat meat, so plant-based protein was not an option. We are immediately thrust into a world where the meat industry has gone extinct due to a mysterious virus that affected all animal life. I tried to write the best novel I could possibly write, without trying to convince anyone of anything because, in my opinion, fanaticism is another form of violence.” She has also described her work as “protest writing.” Although these two ideas may seem incongruent, she reconciles them by saying that good art makes us think and reevaluate the world, and that “each of works was the best thing could have written at that time.” A NO-SPOILER SUMMARY In response to BBC Culture’s article “ Can a book make you vegan?” Bazterrica said, “With Tender is the Flesh I never intended to write a vegan manifesto. Her first novel, Killing the Girl, was published in 2013. Other notable accomplishments include the First Prize in the 2004 National Short Story Competition of the Popular Library of Olivos, the First Prize in the XXXVIII Latin American Short Story Contest in 2009, and the Clarín Novel Award 2017. She has won multiple awards, starting in 1998 with third place in the Literary Contest “Lujan Centro Provincial de las Letras” in Argentina. What happens when cannibalism is not taboo, but actually the norm? BEHIND THE PENĪgustina Bazterrica was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974. Such a world is created in Agustina Bazterrica’s novel Tender is the Flesh. The situations that create a need for cannibalism, however, can be very strange. For those of us in the horror community, ideas about cannibalism are not strangers.

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