Tender Is the Flesh
After a virus makes animal meat lethal, states legalize breeding humans for meat. Marcos Tejo grieves at a processing plant when he is given a live female…
2,372-word summary · 11 min read
literary fiction + survival
4 books tagged both “literary fiction” and “survival”.
Blindness
A white blindness sweeps a city, and an eye doctor's wife who can still see guides seven strangers through camp and ruin.
2,772-word summary · 12 min read
Life of Pi
Life of Pi retold: Pondicherry zoo, ship loss, Pi and Richard Parker in a boat, two stories.
1,936-word summary · 9 min read
Lord of the Flies
William Golding's Lord of the Flies retold: Ralph and Jack, the conch, the beast, Simon, Piggy, and why the rescue is no relief.
2,254-word summary · 10 min read