Milk Fed A Novel
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder, published by Simon and Schuster on August 3, 2021, is a novel that explores the complexities of desire and identity. The story follows Rachel, a twenty-four-year-old who has turned calorie restriction into a form of control in her life. As she navigates her job at a Los Angeles talent management agency and her obsessive food rituals, Rachel’s world shifts when her therapist suggests a communication detox from her mother, prompting her to confront her past and her relationship with food.
In this narrative, Rachel encounters Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at a frozen yogurt shop and challenges Rachel’s views on nourishment and connection. Their growing relationship leads Rachel on a journey filled with themes of spirituality, familial ties, and the interplay between physical and emotional appetites. Milk Fed delves into the intersections of diet culture, sexuality, and personal growth, offering a humorous yet poignant examination of how we manage our desires and the societal pressures surrounding them. This edition contains 320 pages and is presented in English.
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Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more
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).
Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. 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. 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.
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 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.
“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. Milk Fed is “riotously funny and perfectly profane” (Refinery 29) from “a wild, wicked mind” (Los Angeles Times).
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