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Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hot Milk about?

I Have Been Sleuthing My Mother's Symptoms For As Long As I Can Remember. If I See Myself As An Unwilling Detective With A Desire For Justice, Is Her Illness An Unsolved Crime? If So, Who Is The Villain And Who Is The Victim? Sofia, A Young Anthropologist, Has Spent Much Of Her Life Trying To Solve The Mystery Of Her Mother's Unexplainable Illness. She Is Frustrated With Rose And Her Constant Complaints, But Utterly Relieved To Be Called To Abandon Her Own Disappointing Fledgling Adult Life. She And Her Mother Travel To The Searing, Arid Coast Of Southern Spain To See A Famous Consultant--their Very Last Chance--in The Hope That He Might Cure Her Unpredictable Limb Paralysis. But Dr. Gomez Has Strange Methods That Seem To Have Little To Do With Physical Medicine, And As The Treatment Progresses, Sofia's Mother's Illness Becomes Increasingly Baffling. Sophia's Role As Detective--tracking Her Mother's Symptoms In An Attempt To Find The Secret Motivation For Her Pain--deepens As She Discovers Her Own Desires In This Transient Desert Community. Hot Milk Is A Profound Exploration Of The Sting Of Sexuality, Of Unspoken Female Rage, Of Myth And Modernity, The Lure Of Hypochondria And Big

Who reads Hot Milk?

Author

Deborah Levy

Publisher

Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241146552

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.41 / 5 (413 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14