If they were done well then I'd tolerate the rest of the book but MY GOD If I hear her say 'the smell of her Pu$sy', in the most inanimate tone mind you, one more time I might vomit. Zero substance- It's exclusively filled with eating disorder fetishizing and detailed accounts of erotic (yet cringey) sapphic encounters and fantasies read dryly and flatly. I'm sooooo close to finishing this book but it feels agonizing to get through. Milk Fed is “riotously funny and perfectly profane” ( Refinery 29) from “a wild, wicked mind” ( Los Angeles Times). “A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture” ( Glamour) Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. 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.

Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist encourages her to take a 90-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. At night, she pedals to nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” ( The Boston Globe ) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache” ( BuzzFeed ). Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more

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