“ Big Brother is vintage Shriver - observant, unsettling, funny, but also, as Pandora admits, ‘Very, very sad.’” - Miami Herald (which) raises challenging questions about how much a loving person can give to another without sacrificing his or her own well-being.” - People, People Pick (4 Stars) “The moving (and shocking) finale will have you thinking about the ‘byzantine emotional mathematics’ we all put ourselves through when overwhelmed with family responsibilities.”. “As a writer, Shriver’s talents are many: She’s especially skilled at playing with readers’s reflexes for sympathy and revulsion, never letting us get too comfortable with whatever firm understanding we think we have of a character.” - Washington Post 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. Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: an issue both social and excruciatingly personal. What happened? After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It’s him or me. In the years since they’ve seen one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. Then, when Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she doesn’t recognize him. 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. 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.įor Pandora, cooking is a form of love.
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