![]() ![]() ![]() In her wildly readable prose, Melissa Broder ( So Sad Today) has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year: a harrowing, exhilarating, and frankly obscene exploration of all the ways we endeavor to make ourselves disappear - and the untold liberty that comes when our appetites are freed at last. A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. The simple pleasure that Miriam takes in faith and family and the flesh that spills beyond her waistband like so many buttermilk biscuits is a revelation - and an erotic awakening, too. Melissa Broder’s new novel, Milk Fed, bravely questions the particularly female lionization of thin and loathing of fat, landing on fresh explanations. "All that mattered," she declares, "was what I ate, when I ate, and how I ate it." Until the day she places her usual order (fat-free, no toppings please) at her frozen yogurt spot and is instead served a decadent sundae by Miriam, an Orthodox Jew whose cups runneth over in every way. talent agency, not her nonexistent social life, and certainly not her neurotic mother, checking in daily from New Jersey. At 24, her life is centered on one objective - not her halfhearted job at an L.A. A Most-Anticipated Selection by Vogue Refinery29 Vulture BuzzFeed Harper’s Bazaar O, The Oprah Magazine The Millions Literary Hub The Rumpus Publishers Weekly and more A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today.Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie. If self-denial were a sport, Rachel could host her own Olympics. ![]()
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