From one of Sweden’s most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food, translated by Saskia Vogel.

Bread and Milk traces a life through food, from a bag of tangerines devoured in one sitting to the luxury of a grandmothers rice pudding, from pancakes meant to make up for a mothers absence to perfectly sliced tomatoes winning, at last, a distant fathers 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.

In this radiant memoir, one of Swedens 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. Bread and Milk is at once wholly original and a natural extension of the brazenly intelligent and personal writing that has come to define Karolina Ramqvists authorship.

Paperback | 208 pages | 5.68″ x 8.53″