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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