Milk Fed: A Novel

Comparison is the thief of lesbianism…

For Rachel hunger and the erotic hold the same place for her -- to be fantiasized about but never materialized in reality. Then comes someone who forces her to confront her sexuality and her eating disorder all in the shape of Miriam who reminds her of everything her own Jewish mother would hate. With a dash of Jewish mysticism sprinkled in, you get a great story , about the love and hate for food and sex through Rachel's first person narration of her life and thoughts and feelings and desires.

i did not like this
this relationship isn't love, it's a skinny woman fetishizing a fat woman. it's gross.
also, masterbating in public isn't okay just because you're a woman, it makes you a sex offender.

This book is admittedly very hard to get into. The first 15-20 pages read mostly as a food log and the story takes a while to pick up overall. Once the book got into a flow though it was very interesting and had a lot of interesting commentary on Judaism and ideas of the erotic. Overall it read as a very woe is me, sad white girl who has no sense of direction book (I.e Lovers and Writers, Sweet Bitter, etc) which can be fun but a bit overdone in my opinion.

i'm going to be honest... i was so bored reading this book it took me like 6 months just to finish it and i only finished it because i saw a tik tok mentioning chapter 51. and it's not even that i disliked anything about it particularly i just felt like the story did nothing for me in order to stay entertained. but me and miss girly are very similar i wish i would've liked this more.