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A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.

For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing…


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1 author picked Mega Milk as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Forthcoming later this winter, Mega Milk is a memoir divided into discreet chapters based on various aspects of the dairy industry. Central to the story is the author's relationship with their parents, feelings about dairy, and commiseration with cows. (Their trans-ness, which disrupts and leavens each of these in different ways, is *not* central to the story, and the lack of scrutiny given an author's transition is refreshing and smart.) What marks the book is curiosity, and what I felt most compelled by while reading is where the author went that I would not have gone, and what the author…

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