# Milk Fed - Hardcover

by **Melissa Broder** (Author)

**Named a Best Book of the Year by **_Entertainment Weekly_, _**Vogue**_**,** _****Time****_****,**** _****Esquire****_****,****** _BookPage_, and more**

**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 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.

### Author Biography

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels _Milk Fed_ and _The Pisces_, the essay collection _So Sad Today_, and five poetry collections, including _Superdoom_. She has written for _The_ _New York Times_, _Elle_, and _New York_ magazine's _The Cut_. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @SoSadToday and @MelissaBroder and Instagram @RealMelissaBroder.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** February 02, 2021

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