num_pages: 304
description: 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 subsistinguntil 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 Miriamby her sundaes and her body her faith and her familyand 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 psycheboth sacred and profane.
language: English
title: Milk Fed
publisher: Scribner