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“It follows Isserley, an alien living in human form, as she drives up and down the A9 road in Scotland picking up male hitchhikers. Eventually we learn that she is actually harvesting these men so that they can be fattened up and slaughtered by her colleagues, and sent back to her home planet as a highly-prized meat, primarily eaten by the elite who live above ground. It is such a brilliant concept as the very case of being a human being is othered; Isserley has been subjected to deforming surgeries to make her look human, leaving her in pain and alienated from her own body.” Read more...
Heather Parry, Novelist
“It’s a brilliant reflection of our preconceptions about bodies, and what we think other forms of life may be capable of or how important we think they are, in terms of whether or not they look like us. The novel is written from the point of view of an alien who has a particular job to do, which involves rounding up humans (while trying to fly under the radar and go unnoticed), and then processing them for a particular use back on her home planet.” Read more...
