The Thick and the Lean LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

In her debut memoir she shares her extensive work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls

Told from the alternating perspectives of Obiefuna and Uzoamaka

Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New York Times Book Review

Hélène Cixous

The Thick and the Lean LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONALNew remaindered copy, paperback In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porters decadent and richly imagined (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them. In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatirc Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flamb, marzipan. As