2 Books Like Sister Golden Calf

Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets, a Stylist Best Debut Novel of 2024.

'A sharp, dark, must-read story about appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame' Daily Mail

'If I owned a bookstore, I'd hand-sell Piglet to everyone' New York Times Book Review

'A dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire' i News

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Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?

For Piglet - an unshakable childhood nickname - getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding...… show more.

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers

In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.

The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale… show more.