{"product_id":"milk-fed-pb","title":"Milk Fed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An erotic, singular experience that could only come from Broder's mind... brimming with tension, and food, and fantasies.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -Isaac Fitzgerald\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly 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,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroder 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMelissa \u003cstrong\u003eBroder \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath Valley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the essay collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Sad Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and five poetry collections, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperdoom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She has written for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @SoSadToday and @MelissaBroder and Instagram @RealMelissaBroder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melissa Broder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711795351837,"sku":"9781982142506","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781982142506.jpg?v=1767817578","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/milk-fed-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}