This book is also bursting with energy, with tiny apertures of kindness, and a youthful kind of joy. “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.” -NPR.org 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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