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 Parties Rachel 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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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526644367
Publisert
2021
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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