( you’ll have to put the puzzle pieces together yourself if you read the book) My goodness- there were so many little things I loved about this book. “I wondered whether there was a deadline for when a person had to finally stop blaming her mother for her own thoughts”. Texting her mom in her head…hearing her mothers invisible text words back. She was also on day 3 of ‘mom-detoxification’. Rachel had food rituals to keep herself skinny. She learned that she was a terrible waitress and she didn’t have the energy to stand on your feet all day. “This is the thing about boundaries: they made sense in therapy, but when you tried to implement them in the real world, people had no idea what you were talking about”.įrom beginning her college career as a theater major at the University of Wisconsin, Rachel, ( not liking theater people), she began her open mic stand up comedy.Īfter school she moved to Los Angeles where her first job was waitressing at a vegan diner. “From our relationship, I said it’s emotionally unsafe”. Rachel’s mother wrote back immediately: “What are you talking about?” I wondered to myself how big that was going to go over. I will not be reachable for the next 90 days.
So, Rachel sent her mother a text saying. “It was a phrase you’d associate with a person who didn’t need anything from anyone a closed system, an automaton. Rachel‘s therapist said she should expect nothing. Rachel wasn’t expecting fanfare from her mother, but she thought she would at least be a little bit proud. When she texted her mother, she wrote, “how did they find you?” Rachel had just been chosen by a low-trafficked entertainment blog as one of 25 young female comics to watch.
’s raining here today in California-so I may skip my morning walk to sit on our spinnaker stationary bike.Īnd I ‘might’ say ‘ooo’ when I sit on the bike today. I’m sure readers will find fault - roll their eyes- say ‘ooo’ to themselves in parts. ( our daughter has been recovered for many years).īut I loved ‘Milk Fed’. So I tend to stay away from the topic today. (our daughter was hospitalized five times battling anorexic).
Given that Rachel, our protagonist had an eating disorder, I shouldn’t have liked this book at all. The dialogue was fresh, in your face bold, smart & savvy. I read it in one sitting - not stopping to pee or make tea.
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