Mesmerizing.”Ī blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter’s fresh, pointed debut explores a strange new world in the wake of a benign alien invasion.

This book is wildly new and deliciously satisfying, and Porter is one of our moment's most original seers.“A unique alien invasion story that focuses on the human and the myriad ways we see and don’t see our own world. This novel is a feast of ideas I didn’t want to end.' -Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria 'Decadent and richly imagined, The Thick and the Lean topples expectations and skillfully re-maps vice and virtue, indulgence and shame as we know them. Chana Porter is a brilliant engineer of speculative societies and vivid far-flung realms, but she is also an author who reminds us what matters most in our real lives: the urgency of living our highest truth. 'The Thick and the Lean flips our known world inside out and, in doing so, exposes familiar seams of subjugation-from purity culture to capitalist exploitation. This book is wildly new and deliciously satisfying, and Porter is one of our moment's most original seers.' -Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun 'Decadent and richly imagined, The Thick and the Lean topples expectations and skillfully re-maps vice and virtue, indulgence and shame as we know them. This novel is a feast of ideas I didn’t want to end.' -Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria

The seep by chana porter