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THE MAN WHO COULDN'T EAT
By: Jon Reiner
Gallery Books
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 1439192472
EAN: 9781439192474
Kindle: B004G8QTRU
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Non-Fiction Memoir
βIβm a glutton in a greyhoundβs body, a walking contradiction, in the grip of the one thing I canβt haveβfood.β
Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine; heritage, hot pastrami club with a half-sour pickle; guilty pleasures, a chocolate rum-soaked Bundt cake; identity, vegetarian or carnivore. Food is the sensuality of a ripe strawberry or a pork chop sizzling on the grill. But what if the very thing that keeps you alive, that bonds us together and marks occasions in our lives, became a toxic substance, an inflammatory invader? In this beautifully written memoir, both gut-wrenching and inspiring, award-winning writer Jon Reiner explores our complex and often contradictory relationship with food as he tells the story of his agonizing battle with Crohnβs diseaseβand the extraordinary places his hunger and obsession with food took him. The Man Who Couldnβt Eat is an unvarnished account of a marriage in crisis, children faced with grown-up fears, a man at a life-and-death crossroads sifting through his past and his present. And it shows us a tough, courageous climb out of despair and hopelessness. Aided by the loving kindness of family, friends, and strangers and by a new approach to food, Reiner began a process of healing in body and mind. Most of all, he chose lifeβand a renewed appetite, any way he could manage it, for the things that truly matter most.
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