Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Available At: Rampart
Categories : Sexual, Violence
Description: Milk and Honey is an Indian-Canadian collection of both abstract fiction and non-fiction poetry and prose.
YA Label?: No
Notes: This book contains illustrations depicting non-sexual nudity; sexual activities including sexual assault.
Rating : 4
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Snippets
Page 8: The illustration depicts a naked woman sitting with her legs open with the words “you have been taught your legs are a pit stop for men that need a place to rest a vacant body empty enough for guests but no one ever comes and is willing to stay”.
Page 15: He guts her with his fingers like he’s scraping the inside of a cantaloupe clean.
Page 20: You plough into me with two fingers and I am mostly shocked. It feels like rubber against an open wound. I do not like it. You begin pushing faster and faster.
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