Milk And Honey By Rupi Kaur

Everyone experiences a side of being unhappy or being unloved, and the feeling that there is nowhere to turn when feeling this way. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur is a book that is filled with things that people can connect with, it gives the reader a sense that they can get through whatever they’re going through. This book is intended to catch the eye of female readers who need to know that there are other people going through what they are going through and they aren’t alone, it shows them how to be strong and independent. A woman doesn’t need a mans love to make them feel beautiful, when selflove and confidence is all you need. Three thing in the book that make the book great are the four parts the book is broken down into; each telling a different story then the other, the message from then entire book itself, and the illustrations in the book drawn by Kaur herself.
Kaur turned her first 21 years of life into a book about survival, this book is about the rough times in her life and how she got through it. She shared the most sacred and vulnerable parts of her life so she can show the rest of the world that some things you can still get through. This book is a story about family, love,
But Milk and Honey includes illustration and these drawings connect with each poem in their own way. The first drawing in this book is a woman with her legs open and in between her legs reads a short poem “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.” (Kaur, P.13, 2015). The illustration connects with each poem gracefully even when the drawings don’t seem like they match the poem but they do, it just need to be looked at with a different approach. The pictures make the book become more deep and it brings all of her stories more to