Book Review: Heart of Swine
By Elizabeth Suggs
Heart of Swine by Freddy F. Fonseca is both strange and provocative, dealing with climate change and meat consumption. You’ll be both shocked and laughing throughout the entire novel.
Fonseca knows how to spin a tale to showcase a problem that society faces while giving it a comedic spin. Set in the early 21st century when Russia turns off gas supplies to Western Europe,Western Europe is freezing, so they decide to use climate change to their benefit and start heating up the planet by massively increasing meat production. Western Europe is so successful at eating pigs that all but one pig is killed. And this last pig has superpowers!
Fonseca gave me his book for an honest review, along with some lovely gifts: sugar, red pepper, a pig pin, tea, and a personalized note, which I loved. I also really enjoyed the book’s inside jokes on Marxism and the Chekhov names. But at times, the story felt a little too quirky and ridiculous for me.
If you’re into fast-paced, funny stories, then you may enjoy this one!