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The Middlesteins

Name: The Middlesteins
Author: Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg

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"The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages" - Jonathan Franzen

Edie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them-even their own children Robin and Benny-agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, but no one expected Richard to walk out on her, especially not in her condition. Edie is fifty-nine years old, she weighs 300 pounds, and her doctors have told her she'll die if she doesn't stop eating.

As Richard is shut out by the family and seeks solace in the world of internet dating, Robin is dragged back from the city and forced to rebuild a relationship with her mother. Meanwhile Benny and his neurotic wife Rachelle try to take control of the situation. But have any of them stopped to think about whether Edie really wants to be saved?

Written with sly humour, warmth and great insight, The Middlesteins is a novel about what it means to be part of a family.

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A wonderfully messy and layered family portrait.

m still thinking about them long after I turned the final page.
Jami Attenberg has a gift for making you sympathize with each and every one of her characters. The result is a rich family portrait that's sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, and gripping all the way through. The Middlesteins are every bit as complex and contradictory as your family, or mine. I'

The Middlesteins is an absolute pleasure.

This epic tale of marriage, family and addiction is full of humour and heart

Blazing, ferocious and greathearted ... The Middlesteins will blow you away

Edie pulses with life no matter how close she seems to dying, and her character is emblematic of the tough compassion Attenberg exhibits throughout the novel.

s practically edible.
The Middlesteins is a tender, sad and funny look at a family and their mother. In fact, it's so readable, it'

A complex confection, bittersweet and tender

s unusual connections and disconnections - and allows the hope that different connections may take place. Just another quirky family story? Anything but.
The Middlesteins masterfully reveals the emotional landscape of one family'

ll understand why once you read it.
I couldn't help absolutely devouring The Middlesteins. This smorgasbord of a book about food, family, love, sex, and loss is like the Jewish The Corrections, yet menschier and with a heart-and it's hilarious! Also, it made me add more cinnamon to a pie I was baking. You'

The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages

The Middlesteins is a marvel.

Attenberg evokes memorable moments of authentic sadness and tenderness while thoughtfully and comically examining the question of what we inherit from our families. In the case of the Middlesteins, it is many things, including their sometimes-enduring love for each other.

Attenberg writes well, with economy and a welcome lack of sentimentality

Moving, hilarious

Throughout this poignant novel, the characters wrestle with two defining questions: What do we owe each other after a life together? What do we owe ourselves?

s rapidly consumed yet nourishing novel anatomizes our insatiable hunger for love, meaning, and hope.
Kinetic with hilarity and anguish, romance and fury, Attenberg'

s merciless, tender, often brilliantly funny peeling back of the layers of history. Sublime. 
Family ties are anything but simple, and the joy of this book lies in Attenberg'

Superb ... Attenberg is a great storyteller

Attenberg is superb at mocking the cliches of middle-class life by giving them the slightest turn to make people suddenly real and wholly sympathetic.

re a treat to be with.
Attenberg has the Tolstoyan gift for creating life on the page. Sometimes all she needs to capture a soul is a couple of sentences. But the pleasure she takes in these people goes beyond compassion...When Attenberg shows us the world through their eyes, they're not just interesting and sympathetic; they'

s prose is complex, bitter as well as tender
Flows like double cream ... Like the best culinary confections, Attenberg'

thoughts - Richard and Benny in particular - seem utterly real, and her wry, observational humor often hits sideways rather than head-on ... [A] wonderfully messy and layered family portrait
Attenberg makes her characters'

The Middlesteins, the novel, is great literature: warm, tragic, funny and deeply, complexly, entirely human.

This gem of a book is swift, moving and brutally honest, but it has a family-centric moral at its heart: Without family, we are nothing.

The Middlesteins is a truly original American novel, at once topical and universally timeless. Jami Attenberg has created a Midwestern Jewish family who are quintessentially familiar but fiercely, mordantly idiosyncratic. This novel will make you laugh, cry, cringe in recognition, and crave lamb-cumin noodles. This is a stunningly wonderful book.

A comedy of manners, its dark moments alleviated by small epiphanies and snatched moments of joy

Funny, eccentric ... warm and profound

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