Milk Fed
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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and moreThis darkly hilarious and "delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food" (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a "precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache" (BuzzFeed).
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.
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.
"A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture" (Glamour), 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. Milk Fed is "riotously funny and perfectly profane" (Refinery 29) from "a wild, wicked mind" (Los Angeles Times). Fans of coming-of-age fiction and literary fiction alike will find this novel filled with emotional depth and wit.
Melissa Broder is the author of four poetry collections, including Last Sext, as well as the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces and the essay collection So Sad Now. Broder has contributed to The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italy, and The Cut, among other publications. She is a Pushcart Prize winner for poetry. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781982142506 |
| ISBN 10 | 1982142502 |
| Title | Milk Fed |
| Author | Melissa Broder |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2021-08-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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