Milk fed : a novel

Summary: "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."--Dust jacket flap.

Item details

ISBN: 9781982142490
ISBN: 1982142499
Physical Description: print
289 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021
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- Top Circs: 1 / 5.0
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 1 / 5.0

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