![]() ![]() Oddly, for something I do every day, I can’t remember many meals in detail, while it is far easier for me to call up favorite movies, faithful friendships, graduations. I don’t mean celebratory dinners, good fellowship I mean salivation, mastication, and peristalsis. I have to wonder whether any of the true highlights of my fortysome years have had to do with food. Science: Obesity Gene Linked to Hunger Hormone.New York Times: Overweight? Maybe You Really Can Blame Your Genes.“If it were just my family’s problem, I don’t know that I would necessarily have made a novel, but in that it’s also a larger social problem, I thought it was worth writing about,” Shriver told Here & Now. Her brother died days after she wrote the column. She wrote an op-ed piece for the Guardian in 2009 about her morbidly obese big brother: “ Lionel Shriver: My brother is eating himself to death.” ![]() Shriver mines some of her own family history for the novel. In her new novel “ Big Brother,” the topic is morbid obesity.Īn Iowan couple, Pandora and Fletcher have their lives upended when Pandora’s 400-pound brother Edison comes to live with them. Her acclaimed 2011 novel “ We Need to Talk About Kevin” looked at the aftermath of a high school massacre, and her 2010 book “ So Much for That” critiqued the U.S. Author Lionel Shriver has taken on hot-button topics before. ![]()
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