#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence; abuse; love; loss; and femininity. the book is divided into four chapters; and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.