A review by everie
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A lot of fun for so heavy a read. Covers the love story of a main character with an eating disorder who falls for a woman who she imagines has all of the qualities of her appearance she most fears. Obviously it's about
self-love, baby!


The hypnotic delivery of the few calories the MC allows herself per day and punishing schedule she's made for herself set the tone of the story as first, until the MC meets Miriam, the orthodox Jewish daughter of the owners of a frozen yogurt chain. Things happen, Miriam interrupts the MC's routine--with some fantastic decadant frozen yogurt creations that I absolutely wanted--and shit hits the fan.

Love the sensual descriptions of food as the MC
gets more and more 'fuck it' about her set schedule in the face of unpredictable caloric intake
, and laughed out loud at some of the unabashadly Freudian fantasies in the early parts.

I also
was wondering if they would address Palestine at the first visit to the Schwebels', and I'm glad they did at the second, but yooooooowza. The perfect image from the first night is shattered.
Wonderfully done!


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