The Middlesteins

by Jami Attenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455507202
• ISBN13: 9781455507207
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"