{"id":1570,"date":"2023-11-12T19:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:10:45","slug":"your-next-jewish-read-milk-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/12\/your-next-jewish-read-milk-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Jewish Read: Milk Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-12-at-1.33.25-PM-666x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1571 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-12-at-1.33.25-PM-666x1024.png 666w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-12-at-1.33.25-PM-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-12-at-1.33.25-PM-768x1181.png 768w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-12-at-1.33.25-PM.png 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Title: <em>Milk Fed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Melissa Broder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genre: Realistic Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Year of Publication: 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why I Borrowed\/Bought It: I purchased my copy of Milk Fed from based on book buzz and of course, that cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two sentence summary: Rachel is 24, lives in LA, is a lapsed Jewish bi-sexual, and as this book opens the reader is immediately drawn into the regimented life that marks her (TW) disordered eating. Milk Fed never flags bridging sadness, Judaism, nostalgia, new-love-excitement, eroticism with the protagonist&#8217;s sense of wit and eventual spontaneity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final Thoughts: If you liked <em>Fleischman is in Trouble<\/em>, this may be the book for you. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>There was something nice about being forced to be done with everything by sunset, to be excused from life. It was like a teacher&#8217;s note from the ultimate authority.<\/p><cite>Milk fed ~ Melissa broder<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Milk Fed Author: Melissa Broder Genre: Realistic Fiction Year of Publication: 2021 Why I Borrowed\/Bought It: I purchased my copy of Milk Fed from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[89,119,124,151,123,120],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-next-jewish-read","tag-contemporary","tag-disordered-eating","tag-family","tag-lgbtqrep","tag-los-angeles","tag-melissa-broder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-12-at-1.33.25-PM.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}