![]() ![]() I know that the author lost her brother due to weight issues and this book is definitely about us and our weird relationship with food. I was a little disappointed in this book. Big Brother, a tragicomic meditation on family and food, may be her best book yet." - Gary Shteyngart "The fellowship of Lionel Shriver fanatics is about to grow larger, so to speak. Shriver examines America's weight obsession with both razor-sharp insight and compassion." - J. "A searing, addictive novel about the power and limitations of food, family, success, and desire. ![]() Only the scales don't lie." - Margot Livesey "What would you do for love of a brother? For love of a husband? For love of food? In Big Brother, Shriver's new and wonderfully timely novel, her heroine wrestles with these vexing questions. "Shriver brilliantly explores the strength of sibling bonds versus the often more fragile ties of marriage." - Booklist " returns to the family in this intelligent meditation on food, guilt, and the real (and imagined) debts we owe the ones we love" - Publishers Weekly A masterful, page-turning study of complex relationshipsĪmong our bodies, our minds and our families." - Kirkus ![]()
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