A scathingly funny wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food sex and god from
the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces A STYLIST INDEPENDENT THE WEEK AND RED
HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird ... This riot of carnal pleasure will
make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times 'A revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one
of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating ' Entertainment Weekly
'A luscious heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I
couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado author
of Her Body and Other Parties Rachel is twenty-four a lapsed Jew who has made calorie
restriction her religion. By day she maintains an illusion of control by way of 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.
