Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months....

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more! From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief...

Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency....

Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer....

Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark....

From the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces comes a scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and God....

The Pisces is about heartbroken PhD student who over one summer falls in dangerous, ecstatic, love with a merman....

Melissa Broder delves deep into existential themes, from eating disorders, drug addiction and unusual fetishes to love, death and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back....

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike....