Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings,
marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed
author the international bestseller We Need to Talk
About Kevin.
For Pandora, cooking is a
form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed
high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the “toxic” dishes that
he’d savored through their courtship, and spends hours each
day to manic cycling. Then, when Pandora picks up her older
brother Edison at the airport, she doesn’t recognize him. In
the years since they’ve seen one another, the once slim, hip
New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What
happened? After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome,
Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It’s him or
me.
Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious
energy, Big Brother is about fat: an issue both
social and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much
sacrifice we'll make to save single members of our families,
and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from
themselves.
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