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Milk Fed

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Pub Date 4 Mar 2021 | Archive Date 4 Mar 2021


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Description

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces

'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldn’t get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine.

Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman 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.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. 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.

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces

'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery...


Advance Praise

'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite ' - Dolly Alderton on 'The Pisces'

'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves ' - Elle on 'The Pisces'


'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite ' - Dolly Alderton on 'The Pisces'

'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how...


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781408897096
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)

Average rating from 42 members


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