Before Rachel meets Miriam, how do you feel about her?ģ. Have you encountered other fiction about food, and how has it affected you?Ģ.
This book is partially about extreme dieting and disordered eating. With a golem, an ancient mystic rabbi, a wicked mother, and some truly wild erotic fantasies, Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed.ġ. Miriam begins to fall for Rachel too, but Miriam is Orthodox and takes great joy in eating. She’s overwhelmed by her attraction to Miriam, who works at the frozen yogurt shop Rachel frequents every day. Rachel is a lapsed Jew and obsessive calorie-counter. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Milk Fed includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. Milk Fed is “riotously funny and perfectly profane” ( Refinery 29) from “a wild, wicked mind” ( Los Angeles Times). “A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture” ( Glamour) Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts.
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. 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 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. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. 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. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” ( The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache” ( BuzzFeed). Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more
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