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Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more

This 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 subsistinguntil 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 Miriamby her sundaes and her body, her faith and her familyand 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.

Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Milk Fed
• Author: Melissa Broder
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781982142506
• ISBN: 1982142502
• ID: 35461813
• Publisher: Scribner
• Weight: 354 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 203 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. August 2021

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