{"product_id":"book-dzoa","title":"Milk Fed","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003eEsquire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSo Sad Today\u003c\/i\u003e is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache” (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, through 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rachel soon 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture” (\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e), this novel blends humor and dark comedy with sharp insights into contemporary relationships. Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed \u003c\/i\u003eis “riotously funny and perfectly profane” (\u003ci\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/i\u003e) from “a wild, wicked mind” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Fans of coming-of-age fiction and literary fiction alike will find this novel filled with emotional depth and wit.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49346945220912,"sku":"BDdzoa","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49346945253680,"sku":"10dzoa","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dzoa-cover.jpg?v=1767915657","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dzoa","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}