Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Middlesteins, by Jami Attenberg



This title was promoted heavily before it was released so I put it on reserve,  For some reason I expected it to be a sprawling Jewish family saga, which it is definitely not.  A sad tale of Edie, who has a life-long affair with food, and her family, who both love her and rather abhor her for her inability to stop eating herself into an early grave.  Reviewed admiringly in the New York Times a few weeks after I finished it, I did wonder if we read the same book.  I found it a slog.  288 pp.

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