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Milk fed : a novel / Melissa Broder.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.R6345 M555 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broder, Melissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians--Fiction.
- Lesbians.
- Body image.
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minorities--Fiction.
- Body image--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Jewish women--Fiction.
- Jewish women.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Romance fiction.
- Coming-of-age fiction.
- Novels.
- LGBTQ+ fiction
- Physical Description:
- 289 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, Finalist, 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781982142506
- 1982142502
- OCLC:
- 1225177904
- Publisher Number:
- 99987393457
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