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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death Jenny Kleeman

Picador, pp.368, 16.99

It wasn’t until half way through Jenny Kleeman’s Sex Robots and Vegan Meat that I was able to put my finger on why it was making me uncomfortable. Sometimes you read a book where the author’s mindset is so alien to your own that you feel almost as though you’re translating from a foreign language; this was one of those times.

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