Milk Fed

Milk Fed is a novel by Melissa Broder that explores food, sex, and god through the story of Rachel, a twenty-four-year-old lapsed Jew who meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent on feeding her. It 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 psyche.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

From the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces comes a scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and God. A stylist, independent, The Week, and Red Highlight for 2021, this riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp. The Times calls it a revelation, while Entertainment Weekly praises it as a luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, says, "I couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book."

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control through obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman 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, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. 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 psyche—both sacred and profane.

Weight: 216g
Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408897126