At the start of Megha Majumdar’s A Burning, Jivan, an ambitious young girl from the slums of Benghal, comments on a provocative post while idly scrolling through her Facebook feed. A few nights later, the police are at her door, accusing her of a terrorist attack; with little delay, she’s transplanted to a jail, where she attempts to piece together how she ended up there. So begins this transporting mystery, which combines fast-paced plotting with the kind of atmospheric detail one might find in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri or Daniyal Mueenuddin. The story skips from Jivan’s perspective to that of her former P.E. teacher and a sweet-natured, illiterate local named Lovely. It’s an unconventional thriller, but a highly compelling read nonetheless. – Chloe Schama
Do you have the, um, appetite for a dystopian novel about a society built on cannibalism? Wait, wait! Maybe you do. I read this chilling and pointedly political novel from Argentina (where it won a prestigious literary award) in a single sitting, and then handed the galley off to a friend who promptly did the same. (He texted me his review: “I tore through that cannibalism book in two nights. Fun twist at the end.”) A global epidemic has killed all the planet’s animals, leaving humanity to feast on its own for meat. Industrialized plants are set up for this purpose, with a class of humans raised solely as food. Our protagonist, Marcos, is management at one such plant, but he’s wracked with ethical guilt, refuses to eat this so-called “special meat,” and even falls into an unsettling love affair with a woman intended for slaughter. The novel is horrific, yes, but fascinatingly provocative (and Orwellian) in the way it exposes the lengths society will go to deform language and avoid moral truths. – Taylor Antrim
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