A review by kathleencoughlin
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

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

3.75

I wasn't sure about Milk Fed at the beginning but I ultimately ended up enjoying it. Rachel embodies a lot of issues that millennial women, or just women in general, tend to deal with including issues surrounding their bodies, food, and relationships. The book can be funny and even cute at times but it is overall a very freak description of a very mentally ill woman. Rachel has such negative self-talk and body dysmorphia and goes through cycles of binging and restricting food in an attempt to have some control over her body and make others love and be proud of her. Through her  relationship with Miriam who in many ways represents the things she both yearns and fears to be, she starts to repair her sense of self. It's not by any means a healthy relationship but I think both of them new that there were foundational issues that meant it couldn't last.
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