![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently the following two months put a huge strain on the family dynamic and while Pandora desperately wants to stop her brother from eating himself into an early grave, her husband makes it clear that she’ll be risking their marriage if she allows him to stay any longer than the agreed two months.Ī captivating book that examines both familial relationships and essentially what has become a western obsession with both hunger and food, Big Brother is an enthralling read. Unbeknown to Pandora, however, in the two years that has passed since she last saw her older brother, he has gained over 200lbs and is dangerously obese. ![]() Married to fitness freak Fletcher and step-mother to his two children – fourteen year old Cody and sixteen year old Tanner, Pandora receives a call from Edison, who has fallen on hard times financially, and, much to the chargrin of Fletcher agrees to put him up for a couple of months. Since the publication of Lionel Shriver’s We Need to talk About Kevin in 2003, which won the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, a legion of fans have been eagerly awaiting another novel from Shriver as provocative and compelling as its predecessor.īig Brother, Shriver’s twelfth novel, is set in Iowa and tells the story of Pandora and her morbidly obese brother Edison. ![]()
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