Rachel’s therapist suggests Rachel cut off communication with her mother, whose harsh mothering tactics and obsession with thinness are responsible for Rachel’s disordered eating and shame issues. Rachel works at a talent management agency in L.A., a job that she feels ambivalent about, while her life clearly centers mostly around her specific eating schedule. salads without dressing, small yogurts, etc., while also working out obsessively, in an attempt to burn all of the calories she ingests. She has restricted her eating to the barest minimum, i.e. We meet our narrator, Rachel, in a state of intense repression.
Melissa Broder’s Milk Fed is an ambitious exploration of desire in all its forms.
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