{"product_id":"milk-fed-book-melissa-broder-9781982142506","title":"Milk Fed","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsquire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis darkly hilarious and \"delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSo Sad Today\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache\" (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, through obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam--by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family--and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture\" (\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e), this novel blends humor and dark comedy with sharp insights into contemporary relationships. Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e is \"riotously funny and perfectly profane\" (\u003ci\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/i\u003e) from \"a wild, wicked mind\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Fans of coming-of-age fiction and literary fiction alike will find this novel filled with emotional depth and wit.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49677456834833,"sku":"CIN1982142502VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49779625427217,"sku":"CIN1982142502G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50990979154193,"sku":"NIN9781982142506","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51683886956817,"sku":"GOR012879044","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51889559273745,"sku":"CIN1982142502A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982142502.jpg?v=1750901965","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/milk-fed-book-melissa-broder-9781982142506","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}