Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings. marriage. and obesity from Lionel Shriver. the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin For Pandora.. cooking is a form of love. Alas. her husband. Fletcher. a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker. now spurns the toxic dishes that he'd savored through their courtship. and spends hours each day to manic cycling. Then. when Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport. she does not recognize him. In the years since they've seen one another. the once slim. hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome. Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It's him or me.Rich with Shriver's distinctive wit and ferocious energy. Big Brother is about fat: ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize–winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals.
She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications.
She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.
