num_pages: 208
description: Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls women and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family faith forgiveness consumption and what we may or may not owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughterwhose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her familys church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their fathers ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them.Wise and subversive spiritual and seductive Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth.
language: English
title: Milk Blood Heat
publisher: Grove/Atlantic