Big Brother: Brilliant family fiction from the award-winning author of We Need To Talk About Kevin

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To save her brother, Pandora makes a bold choice: to find an apartment, move in with Emerson, and act as his coach for a year while he loses weight.

The book is strongest when it explores the issues that surround the simple act of eating: how it becomes part and parcel with one’s sense of self and how it takes on an overinflated importance that has nothing to do with hunger.In addition to nauseating diet shakes and Fletcher's "viciously nutritious" mounds of bulgur and quinoa, Shriver's propensity for gross-out scenes leads to stomach-curdling binges and several reminders that what goes in must come out.

even if it meant that her husband and stepchildren didn't understand or support her in what she was doing. I stuck with this in the hopes that the ending would shed emotional depth on the characters the way the ending of We Have to Talk About Kevin did, but alas it didn't. It is not often you find a male character imbibed with such handicap, such loss in his life as you find here. I know that the plot summary above sounds like it could come from a Terry Fallis novel– a humorous kind of narrative could easily come about from something like this. Good of her to take on a less developed theme in current literature and try to tackle the psychological reactions that people have in these types of tough situations.Only if you were so repelled by obesity that you were already averting your eyes could this picture work. Her washed-up TV star of a father has given her an intense need to demonstrate her humility as he never had, and her older brother Edison has fallen upon some hard times so he comes to stay with Pandora’s family for a few months in Iowa to get back on his feet. Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: an issue both social and excruciatingly personal.