Dramatic Comedy Characters: 3 male, 3 female
Rural New England, just before Reagan's secondterm. Meg and Ben are a creditor away fromlosing their family farm. To the rescue flies ahigh-powered businessman - in a private chopperno less - offering a tidy sum for a taste offarm life and the pure, raw milk that goes withit. Even before locavores roamed the earth,"back to the land" was hardly as simple as itspromise; livestock and humans aren't knownfor behaving as expected. And so it is Milk, anelegant parable of change set on the cusp ofa shifting American landscape.
"There is anengagingly original streak running throughher writing... [DeVoti] fills Milk with interestingdetails (lots of cow knowledge) and unexpectedtouches." -The New York Times.