Milk Fed
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3.7
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Melissa Broder
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 STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird ... This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times'A revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating' Entertainment Weekly'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, author of Her Body and Other PartiesRachel 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.
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Author
Melissa Broder
Pages
304
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published Date
2021
ISBN
1408897091 9781408897096
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"3 stars here since I bumped it up on Goodreads and have been vacillating between 3.5 and 3.75 and maybe lowering it. "
Changeling Reader (Adrian)
"could not put this one down i think i didn’t understand it all though, i’ll definitely try to read it again when im older"
Mattea<33
"unsettling in a sweet sapphic way"
Odessa
"Adding it to my "Good for her" booklist. One of the hottest books I've ever read. A win for the mommy issued mommy kink girlies. A win for the queers. A win for Rachel creating a body that feels like home, and Miriam existing as a joyful fat woman written without shame in a fat phobic world. Honest representation of families, and community, and love, and daughterhood, and a society that leads to disordered eating and how capitalism n the patriarchy will isolate you and rob you of joy. Lovely. I got worried about the end as I neared it- but it still made me smile wide."
Ez
"i loveeee melissa broder, i own all of her books!! milk fed is definitely one of my favorites by her, it’s just something about her writing style that i fell in love with when i read So Sad Today, the first book i ever read by her. i love her realism, nothing is ever “perfect” about the characters or the storyline in this book specifically. it’s a great read"
hailey
"I bought this because I related to a main character that grew up in a diet-focused home, developed an eating disorder, then met a person who taught them how to actually enjoy food again. I ended up disappointed because this book is definitely not for fat people. The fat love interest isn't very fleshed out, and the feelings the MC has for her cross over into fetishization that made me very uncomfortable. I did like the Orthodox Jewish culture shown, but could not speak to its accuracy."
Sucre
"An incredibly accurate insight of how an ED will warp your mind and permeate your existence."
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Margaret Ries
"Something about this made me not want to stop reading. "
Kathleen Garcia
"Different than any other book I’ve ever read. Risky and brutally honest. Felt like it was a truly related story "
Nichole Miller
"by far one of the most compelling & cathartic books I've ever read. unapologetically articulated experiences that I have just barely begun to unravel on my own. diet culture FAKE gay jews REAL.
through rachel and miriam's disparate home lives, Broder manages to represent a broad spectrum of queer experiences in Jewish-American family structures, contextualized with distinct generational trauma; this spans from a lineage rife with assimilatory disdain, plagued by projections of perpetual inadequacy, to a heimish, seemingly secure environment that reveals itself to be contingent upon each member subscribing to heteronormativity. I am positioned somewhere between these two poles, as is the case for most gay jews I have personally encountered. milk fed grapples with precisely this in-betweenness; the voids left by the past necessitating the creation of a liberated future."
Abby Agranoff
