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Title: One of those books you never forget
Review: I read this book as a kid and have been haunted by it ever since. The 60s/70s/80s were full of sci-fi dystopian worlds for kids and adults alike: Philip K. Dick, Madeleine L'Engle, the creepily familiar-yet-alien magical realist school in The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids. But Bonham drew the future in this book with such specificity that it now seems entirely plausible: world food shortages; an America where real food is only for the ultra-elite, and everybody else has to subsist on processed by-products; a few food guerrillas grow corn and tomatoes in their basements, with fluorescent gro-lites, like marijuana. Sound familiar? Decades later, Bonham's disturbing vision of real food as a forbidden luxury seems eerily prescient.
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