They are self-destructive and directionless. They both suffer at one point or another from an eating disorder. Both novels focus on young bisexual women who have a rather toxic relationship with their mother. To me, Milk Fed reads like a less compelling version of You Exist Too Much. And at first I thought that Milk Fed was a definite hit but after the 30% mark the novel became increasingly repetitive, annoyingly self-indulgent, and ludicrously sensationalistic. As I’ve said before in my review for Luster, these books are a hit or miss for me. Milk Fed follows in the steps of novels such as My Year of Rest and Relaxation (or to name a few others: Pizza Girl, Luster, Exciting Times, Severance, Hysteria, The New Me…and no, this is by no means a comprehensive list). But my rituals kept me skinny, and if happiness could be relegated to one thing alone, skinniness, then one might say I was, in a way, happy.”
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