The Resource The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg
The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg
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- Summary
- 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 determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle, a whippet thin perfectionist, is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder, do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 303 p. (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781611736243
- Label
- The Middlesteins
- Title
- The Middlesteins
- Statement of responsibility
- Jami Attenberg
- Subject
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- trueDomestic fiction
- trueOverweight women
- trueFamily relationships
- trueDiet
- trueFood habits
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueCompulsive behavior in women
- trueObsession
- Middle West -- Fiction
- trueMiddle West
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueFather-separated families
- trueLife change events
- Families -- Fiction
- trueJewish families
- trueFamilies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle, a whippet thin perfectionist, is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder, do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?
- Summary
- Two siblings with very different personalities attempt to take control of their mother's food obsession and massive weight gain to save her life after their father walks out and leaves her reeling in the Chicago suburbs
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- 10141141
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Attenberg, Jami
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
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- Life change events
- Life change events
- Families
- Middle West
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg
- Control code
- 000050206764
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 303 p. (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781611736243
- Isbn Type
- (library binding : alk. paper)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)809926219
- Label
- The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg
- Control code
- 000050206764
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 303 p. (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781611736243
- Isbn Type
- (library binding : alk. paper)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)809926219
Subject
- trueCompulsive behavior in women
- trueDiet
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamilies
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFather-separated families
- trueFood habits
- trueJewish families
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMiddle West
- Middle West -- Fiction
- trueObsession
- trueOverweight women
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