![]() She surveyed her plate, strategizing, map-making.” When Rachel and Miriam go out to dinner together for the first time, Rachel is entranced by Miriam’s confidence and enthusiasm in eating food: “…she cut carefully into a piece of chicken with the side of her chopstick, elegantly and with slow precision, as though nothing had to be inhaled urgently…. Milk Fed becomes far more interesting when a disruption is introduced in the form of Miriam, an Orthodox Jewish woman working at Rachel’s favorite frozen yogurt shop.Īs fascinated as I am by Rachel’s eating disorder, she is equally fascinated by Miriam’s lack of one. ![]() This theory of fiction, that we read stories to see ourselves reflected back, is an affirming but closed feedback loop. ![]() It’s difficult to extract my instinctive attraction to Milk Fed from an evolutionary impulse to seek out what is similar to me. ![]()
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