{"product_id":"milk-fed-9781982142506","title":"Milk Fed","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis darkly hilarious and \"delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSo Sad Today\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache\" (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachel 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachel 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture\" (\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e) Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed \u003c\/i\u003eis \"riotously funny and perfectly profane\" (\u003ci\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/i\u003e) from \"a wild, wicked mind\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982142506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Melissa Broder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40423529676981,"sku":"9781982142506","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a040d4d6-7fa5-47cb-9ca3-96e3ecef4f82.jpg?v=1625577487","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/milk-fed-9781982142506","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}