Agent: Kim Witherspoon, Inkwell Management. If this devotion and Pandora’s increasing success with Edison’s diet plan sometimes seem chirpily false, a late reveal provides devastating justification. But Pandora will risk everything, including her own health, to save him. He brings the novel energy as well as an occasionally unpalatable maudlin drama. Early in the book, the nearly 400-pound Edison arrives-waddling through an Iowa airport with a “ground eating galumph”-a man transformed in the four years since his sister last saw him. In Big Brother, nothing reveals character more scathingly than food. And both live somewhat uncomfortably in the shadow of their father’s TV fame. Pandora’s brother Edison eats to ease the pain of a stalled music career and broken marriage. The dolls speak to the condition of these characters-all trapped in destructive relationships with food (and each other): Pandora cooks to show love, to the delight of her compulsively fit husband Fletcher, whose refusal to eat dairy or vary from his biking routine are the outward manifestation of his remove. Ex-caterer Pandora has made it big with a custom doll company that creates personal likenesses with pull-string, sometimes crude, catch phrases. Her breakout novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, from 2003, was about the. Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin) returns to the family in this intelligent meditation on food, guilt, and the real (and imagined) debts we owe the ones we love. Lionel Shriver doesn't shy away from hot-button topics.
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