![]() ![]() 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.Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. ![]() At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. I couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. Exhilarating ' Entertainment Weekly 'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year. ![]() This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times 'A revelation. A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces A STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird. ![]()
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