![]() ![]() "Few works of fiction see as clearly as this one how violence deforms social networks, enhancing, people's worst instincts. She is a modern heroine." - Los Angeles Times It is a deeply feminist work, a compelling and significant look at how the regular life of a young woman is intimately used for personal and political gain. " Milkman is a deft and triumphant work of considerable intelligence and importance. Milkman makes a passionate claim for freethinking in a place where monochromatic, us-versus-them ideology prevails." - USA Today " style powerfully evokes the narrator's sense of emotional entrapment. ![]() " Milkman is a strange animal it asks a lot, but gives something back, too: the electric jolt of a voice that feels utterly, sensationally new." - Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-) It's as though the intense pressure of this place has compressed the elements of comedy and horror to produce some new alloy." - The Washington Post " Milkman vibrates with the anxieties of our own era, from terrorism to sexual harassment to the blinding divisions that make reconciliation feel impossible. ![]() At its core, Milkman is wildly good and true novel of how living in fear limits people." For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control-political, gendered, sectarian, communal- Milkman can be charmingly wry." -The New Yorker " seeth with black humor and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities. ![]()
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