![]() Rachel falls for her, but is stilted by her own problems: Her own and Miriam's Jewish family, her former and new eating habits (one word: feast), her own and Miriam's sexuality and attachment issues, etc. Enter Miriam, overweight, heiress to a small frozen yogurt empire and deeply religious. Then, her therapist puts her on a 90-day-detox from her actual mother. ![]() All her life, her mother has been suffocating her with her expectations regarding physical appearance and the need to secure a suitable husband, and Rachel now seeks a mother in other female figures (cliche alarm). This new novel tells the story of Rachel, a 24-year-old lapsed Jew with an eating disorder who works at a talent agency in L.A and does stand-up in her free time. Melissa Broder has a sharp, weird sense of humor and a keen eye for the movements of the human soul, but much like in the case of The Pisces (merman sex, remember?), she tends to shoot herself in the foot by relying on some rather stale motifs that juxtapose the fresh language. ![]()
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