Milk Fed
  • Published:
    Feb-2021 (Hardcover)
    Aug-2021 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    336
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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 restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of 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.

Early in the detox, Rachel 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.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. 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.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Aug-2021
    • Scribner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1982142502
    • ISBN13: 9781982142506
    •  
    • Feb-2022
    • Bloomsbury
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1408897121
    • ISBN13: 9781408897126
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2021
    • Scribner
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1982142499
    • ISBN13: 9781982142490
    •  
    • Mar-2021
    • Bloomsbury
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1408897091
    • ISBN13: 9781408897096
    •  
    • Feb-2021
    • Scribner
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1982142510
    • ISBN13: 9781982142513
    •  
    • Feb-2021
    • Bloomsbury
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1408897113
    • ISBN13: 9781408897119
    •  
    • Feb-2021
    • Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Audible
    •  
    • Feb-2021
    • Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1797118188
    • ISBN13: 9781797118185



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