Melissa Broder's exhilarating, bleakly funny Milk Fed is another study of female appetite. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781408897126 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 1000 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĮvery encounter is written with sumptuous detail, from glutting on nachos to intimate sex scenes (real and imagined), making for a simultaneously uncomfortable and revelatory read * Evening Standard * Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche - both sacred and profane.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. 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. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. I couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties 'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year.

This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The PiscesĪ STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021

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