5/21/2023 0 Comments Milk fed book![]() ![]() ![]() In her wildly readable prose, Melissa Broder ( So Sad Today) has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year: a harrowing, exhilarating, and frankly obscene exploration of all the ways we endeavor to make ourselves disappear - and the untold liberty that comes when our appetites are freed at last. The simple pleasure that Miriam takes in faith and family and the flesh that spills beyond her waistband like so many buttermilk biscuits is a revelation - and an erotic awakening, too. "All that mattered," she declares, "was what I ate, when I ate, and how I ate it." Until the day she places her usual order (fat-free, no toppings please) at her frozen yogurt spot and is instead served a decadent sundae by Miriam, an Orthodox Jew whose cups runneth over in every way. ![]() talent agency, not her nonexistent social life, and certainly not her neurotic mother, checking in daily from New Jersey. At 24, her life is centered on one objective - not her halfhearted job at an L.A. If self-denial were a sport, Rachel could host her own Olympics. ![]()
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