Land of Milk and Honey is a rapturous and revelatory novel from the award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold. It tells the story of a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.

Amidst a backdrop where smog has spread and food crops are rapidly disappearing, a chef flees her dying career in a bleak city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony, a place seemingly untouched by the world's troubles. Here, the sky is once again clear, and rare ingredients are in abundance.

Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have created a lush new existence for the global elite, rekindling the chef's senses to the joys of taste, touch, and her own body. In this realm filled with hidden splendors and a cool, seductive violence, the chef experiences a thrilling dissolution of her boundaries.

She soon finds herself at the heart of a shocking endeavor to transform the world far beyond culinary delights. Land of Milk and Honey is a sensuous and surprising tale, joyful yet bitingly sharp. It's a daringly imaginative journey through desire and deception, privilege and faith, survival, and the roles we assume. Above all, it is an ode to food, to unbridled delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own voracious appetite.