This was another "quickie" - read it in two days, no less! It's a fairly recent novel about a Jewish family. Edie as a young child weighs 65 pounds, and by the end of the novel weighs 332 pounds. Her family despairs of her, and her husband Richard leaves her as she prepares for her second surgery to save her life. Everyone loves Edie, and Edie also loves herself, but she also just loves to eat - lots, like a round trip for junk food that includes Macdonalds and Burger King and ends with a huge meal at a Chinese restaurant.
This is a story of marriage, family and obsession in a middle-class mid-western American family. Quite enjoyable actually, but how could she eat that much???? Do people really do that?
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