Milk fed : a novel
Book |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Scribner,
New York :
2021.
- 4 of 4 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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| Centennial | FIC BRODE 2021 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Grimsby | Fic Bro | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Thorold | FIC BRODE | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
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About
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 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. 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 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, 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.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781982142490
- Physical Description: 289 pages
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.