Tender Is the Flesh

I could not put this down. Maybe I just wanted something to shake me out of the depressed stupor Shuggie Bain left me in, I don't know. I do know that I am awake now.
Holy crap, the amount of imagination Bazterrica must have to create this world with all of these systems is just....I have no words. This is not my first cannibalistic rodeo and I was more emotionally destroyed by the animal abuse in this than by anything else. I am going to recommend this to readers who love Lydia Millet, Kelly Link, Muriel Spark and Ottessa Moshfegh.

I flagged so many great quotes.
And now, a spoiler-y declaration:

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! It was all population control! There was no virus. Also, I very much want to know what an umbrella with a propeller on it looks like.