The Middlesteins

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life in the suburbs of Chicago, but their marriage begins to splinter apart due to Edie's life-threatening obsession with food and her enormous girth. When Richard abandons his wife, the responsibility falls to the next generation to intervene. Their daughter, Robin, a schoolteacher, is determined to make her father pay for leaving Edie, while their son, Benny, an easy-going family man, attempts to smooth things over. Meanwhile, their perfectionist daughter-in-law, Rachelle, is intent on saving Edie's life, a task that proves even more challenging than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. The novel is an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession, exploring the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and a devastating preoccupation with food.

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