Humankind is in danger.The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafés with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will humanity survive?Polack describes her novel as, ?Bleak. It''s political. It''s angry. It''s also sarcastic, cynical and funny.?