Pink Slime: A Novel

Synopsis

A mysterious plague has transformed the world. Toxic algae blooms poison the air, violent windstorms make the outdoors increasingly uninhabitable, and a secretive corporation supplies the population with an unsettling pink paste that has become the only affordable food. Amid this slow-moving catastrophe, one woman refuses to abandon the life she knows. Caring for her aging mother, looking after a young boy left behind by his parents, and maintaining a fragile connection with the ex-husband she still loves, she clings to the ordinary routines that give meaning to an unraveling world.

Lyrical, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender, Pink Slime is a haunting work of climate fiction that explores love, duty, grief, and resilience in the face of environmental collapse. Fernanda Trías blends intimate psychological insight with quiet apocalypse, creating a powerful meditation on what it means to remain connected when the future itself has become uncertain.

About the Author

Fernanda Trías is an acclaimed Uruguayan novelist and one of the leading voices in contemporary Latin American literature. Pink Slime was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Esquire, and Publishers Weekly. It is translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary.

Publisher
Scribner

Publication Date
January 16, 2024

Format
Paperback

Pages
224

Subjects
Literary Fiction · Translated Fiction · Climate Fiction · Dystopian Fiction · Uruguayan Literature

ISBN
9781668049785