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The Man Who Couldn't Eat
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
“I’m a glutton in a greyhound’s body, a walking
contradiction, in the grip of the one thing I can’t
have—food.”
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 Crohn’s disease—and the
extraordinary places his hunger and obsession with food took
him. The Man Who Couldn’t 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
life—and a renewed appetite, any way he could manage it, for
the things that truly matter most.
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