Bread and Milk
13 February 2025Imprint: Manilla Press
Synopsis
'Karolina Ramqvist's writing is straight-talking scripture' - Heidi Julavits, author of Directions to Myself
A moving memoir detailing four generations of women through the food they share.
In Bread and Milk, Karolina Ramqvist traces a girlhood through food - she recalls the bag of tangerines devoured in one sitting outside her mother's bedroom, and delighting in the luxury of that extra knob...
A moving memoir detailing four generations of women through the food they share.
In Bread and Milk, Karolina Ramqvist traces a girlhood through food - she recalls the bag of tangerines devoured in one sitting outside her mother's bedroom, and delighting in the luxury of that extra knob...
Details
13 February 2025208 pages
9781786583314Imprint: Manilla Press
Reviews
Ramqvist's highly relatable memoir details the problems that can arise when a child associates food with love. . . her story, with its lush and evocative prose, will speak to many readers.Booklist
Karolina Ramqvist's writing is straight-talking scripture . . . [her] mind is transgressively pragmatic, and a constant source of enlightenment.Heidi Julavits, author of Directions to Myself
A master of finely observed detail.Jessica J. Lee on Bear Woman
Karolina Ramqvist writes with frosty precision the kind of literature that is unforgettable. Her portraits of women hit deep into bone and marrow.Dorthe Nors on The White City
