India, July 25 -- The worldwide panic of 2008 was quite the pin bursting the bubble of the American dream. In the smouldering aftermath of the financial crash, we meet the protagonist of Carnivore, Kash - a Bangladesh-born chef trying to carve out a niche for himself in New York's elite food scene.

Kash is trying (and failing) to run his exotic-meat restaurant, which flops. As debts pile up, a brutal loan shark is (literally) knocking on his door and chopping off fingers. At this point, the desperate Kash makes a last-ditch attempt to break into the billionaire boy club with a degenerate appetite.

But does he make it or does he end up getting swallowed whole by this culinary fever dream? That's what author K. Anis Ahmed explores in this...