The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

The Milk of Almonds

Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

2002 • 346 pages

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"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--

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October 31, 2022