“Milkman is a uniquely meandering and mesmerizing, wonderful and enigmatic work about borders and barriers, both physical and spiritual, and the cost of survival.” -Booklist, starred review This is an unforgettable novel.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review The narrator of this claustrophobic yet strangely buoyant tale undergoes an unsentimental education in sexual politics. Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.” -The Guardian (UK) “Milkman vibrates with the anxieties of our own era, from terrorism to sexual harassment to the blinding divisions that make reconciliation feel impossible … 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 “Seething with black humor and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities … For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control-political, gendered, sectarian, communal-Milkman can be charmingly wry.” - The New Yorker “Bursting with energy, with tiny apertures of kindness, and a youthful kind of joy … A triumph of resistance.” - The Boston Globe
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