With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food. Membership Advantages. Reviews. · With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food. more/5. "Jami Attenberg's comic-tragic portrait of The Middlesteins, a quirky midwestern Jewish family collapsing under burdens of betrayal, desire, and obesity, is Reviews:
Jami Attenberg (born in Arlington Heights, Illinois) is an American fiction writer and essayist. She is the author of a short story collection and five novels, including best-seller The Middlesteins. With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food. © Jami Attenberg (P) Hachette Audio. Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and four novels: The Kept Man, The Melting Season, and The Middlesteins, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Saint bltadwin.ru has contributed essays and criticism to the New York Times, Real Simple, Elle, the Washington Post, and many other publications.
With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food. In her novel The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg paints a portrait of a large and somewhat dysfunctional family struggling to adjust to the dissolution of a marriage. The family’s matriarch indulges her passion for food despite her life-threatening diabetes, while the patriarch abandons her just before another in a long series of surgeries. As other family members choose sides and judge who is ultimately at fault for the breakup, the novel considers how to balance what we owe to. The Middlesteins is a truly original American novel, at once topical and universally timeless.
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