07/02/2024
Happy US pub day to PINK SLIME by Fernanda Trías (Scribner Books tr. Heather Cleary)! 🎉
In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford—a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows—even if staying means being left behind.
An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator’s resiliency. This unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge, and the beauty and fragility of our most intimate relationships.
The book is one of PARADE Magazine best new releases, a Teatime Pictures x Dakota Johnson Book Club Pick, and, according to Silvia Moreno-Garcia, “An intimate, melancholic look at an ecologically ravaged future.”
Published by Literatura Random House and Editorial Mantis in Spanish, rights have sold to Scribe Publications (World English), Scribner (English, USA), edizioni sur (Italian), Editora Moinhos (Portuguese, Brazil), Aurora Boreal (Danish), Prosak Förlag (Swedish), Actes Sud (French), Dar Athar (Arabic), Ullstein Verlag (German), Kültür Yayınları (Turkish), Sulakauri Publishing (Georgian), Wydawnictwo Pauza (Polish), Εκδόσεις Carnívora (Greek), Ombra CVG (Albanian), and Panorama Entertainment (Film) so far. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/mugre-rosa