A scathingly funny wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food sex and god from the Womens 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 TimesA revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating Entertainment WeeklyA luscious heartbreaking story of selfdiscovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldnt get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book Carmen Maria Machado author of Her Body and Other PartiesRachel is twentyfour 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.