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02324aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 3198F2D883F811ECA43678234CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220202011724 008 210312t20212021nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 1982142502 020 $a 9781982142506 035 $a (OCoLC)1241245219 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JIU $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 100 1 $a Broder, Melissa. 245 10 $a Milk fed / $c Melissa Broder. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2021. 300 $a 289 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "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. 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."--Back cover. 650 0 $a Lesbians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Body image $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jewish women $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Los Angeles (Calif.) $v Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515010336.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220202012540.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3198F2D883F811ECA43678234CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search