Literary Fiction

Nothing Tastes as Good

by Luke Dumas

Emmett Truesdale carries three hundred pounds of childhood trauma through Southern California's body-obsessed culture, seeking transformation through increasingly extreme means. Dumas crafts a devastating portrait of self-destruction and societal pressure, where the pursuit of the perfect body becomes a waking nightmare.

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