Book World: Melissa Broder's 'Milk Fed' is a delectable exploration of physical and emotional hunger
Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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Melissa Broder's delectable new "Milk Fed," like "The Pisces," her 2011 debut about a merman, contains deliciously steamy sex scenes. In "Milk Fed," those scenes get tough competition from lusciously over-the-top food scenes, involving protagonist Rachel devouring everything from convenience-store nachos (polishing them off while still in line) to a frozen-yogurt concoction called "The Peppermint Plotz" to a Shabbos meal of long-simmered cholent.
Twenty-four-year-old Rachel, who works at a Hollywood talent agency, wasn't always this way. Her mother, obsessed with thinness, was oblivious to that obsession's effects on her daughter. As a teenager, when Rachel confesses that she thinks she has an eating disorder, her mother responds: "Anorexics are much skinnier than you." Adult Rachel measures out her days in coffee spoons filled with Splenda and yearns for lunchtime salads packed with as much no-calorie lettuce as she can persuade the Subway clerk to add. As a sop to her sad diet, she indulges in mommy-centric sexual fantasies about an older female colleague.
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