{"product_id":"bread-and-milk-paperback","title":"Bread and Milk - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarolina Ramqvist\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSaskia Vogel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food, translated by Saskia Vogel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBread and Milk\u003c\/i\u003e traces a life through food, from a bag of tangerines devoured in one sitting to the luxury of a grandmother's rice pudding, from pancakes meant to make up for a mother's absence to perfectly sliced tomatoes winning, at last, a distant father's approval; it explores how food can fill an emptiness but also consume you. After all, what we eat is inexorably intertwined with how we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this radiant memoir, one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers considers the complex relationships between the women in her family as they struggle with financial and emotional vulnerability, and how those relationships replicate themselves in fraught and obsessive relationships with food. \u003ci\u003eBread and Milk\u003c\/i\u003e is at once wholly original and a natural extension of the brazenly intelligent and personal writing that has come to define Karolina Ramqvist's authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'If Annie Ernaux and Marcel Proust had a love child it would be \u003ci\u003eBread and Milk\u003c\/i\u003e by Karolina Ramqvist.' - \u003cb\u003eLaurel Kane, \u003ci\u003e White Whale Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Karolina Ramqvist's writing is straight-talking scripture, a spiritual text in memoir form. Food isn't just love or its opposite; food marks time for the mortal body. Food is how people remember the people who no longer exist to make and eat food. Ramqvist's mind is transgressively pragmatic, and a constant source of enlightenment. Instead of saying, 'Look at what you didn't know,\" her book says, \"Look at what you thought you didn't know, but always did.' - \u003cb\u003eHeidi Julavits, author of \u003ci\u003eDirections to Myself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Swedish novelist Ramqvist's highly relatable memoir details the problems that can arise when a child associates food with love...The term \"food memoir\" doesn't quite encompass her profound autobiographical journey...her story, with its lush and evocative prose, will speak to many readers.' - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarolina Ramqvist\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most influential writers and feminists of her generation in Sweden. She has written five novels prior to \u003ci\u003eBread and Milk \u003c\/i\u003eand is widely celebrated for her powerful ability to provoke quiet yet fierce questions rather than provide loud and easy answers. In her skillful hands, contemporary issues of sexuality, commercialization, isolation, and belonging become highly charged and, at the same time, completely unaffected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2015 Ramqvist was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe White City\u003ci\u003e (Grove). She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bear Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaskia Vogel\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on the themes of gender, power, and sexuality for publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe White Review, The Offing, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Quietus\u003c\/i\u003e. Previously, she worked as Granta magazine's global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She is the author of the novel\u003ci\u003e Permission.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773188505888,"sku":"9781552454893","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/792182f14453487d756fa4f735b6f63d.webp?v=1780421556","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bread-and-milk-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}