Grand Central Publishing
November 2012
On Sale: October 23, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 1455507210 EAN: 9781455507214 Kindle: B0076BQJMO Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein
shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of
Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one
reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with
food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop,
she won't have much longer to live.
When Richard
abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take
control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined
that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going,
pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over.
And Rachelle-- a whippet thin perfectionist-- is intent on
saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even
bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai
mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's
devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are
others at fault, too?
With pitch-perfect prose, huge
compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an
epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The
Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new
and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our
devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.
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