Big Brother: Brilliant family fiction from the award-winning author of We Need To Talk About Kevin

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It asks just how much sacrifice we'll make to save single members of our families, and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from themselves. She comes at this huge subject through a sister torn between saving her morbidly obese older brother, who has "buried himself in himself," and an unsympathetic, belligerently fit husband — a situation that raises questions about divided loyalties and whether blood is thicker than water.

Many times while reading Big Brother I wanted to shake Lionel, who, I feel, has not revisited her Kevin hayday with any of her subsequent (certainly not her previous) works, and say to her, I get it!As someone with actual perspective here, I can assure the unknowing reader that Shriver is way off the mark. Opinions, as I have heard said, are like a certain part of the human anatomy used for less than pleasant purposes- everyone has one.

I don’t know about you, but in high school, I was taught that to end a book with ‘it was all just a dream’ was literary suicide. Fletcher ‘is’ successful at being obsessively fit—he rides his bike hours a day and wouldn’t consider eating white flour.She is anticipating his never ending stories about life as a jazz pianist - name dropping and exaggerating.

Oh and of course he doesn't just sh**, he poops so much that there's literally poop chunks floating down the hall. Well, what ensues is an admittedly interesting and insightful examination (though if it could have been a less direct one this would have been a much better book) of how both gaining and losing weight cuts both ways, and how we associate food with oh so many things. Shriver's novel 'is about sibling and familial responsibility and the extent to which it's possible, ethical, realistic or even desirable to intervene'. For the past several days I have recommended this book to family and friends, even though it contains a totally unrealistic description of how much heavy people eat, and how they eat it, and a dangerous selection of fad crash diet.We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours.

This book just used that premise to allow the author to proselytize about the social stigmas of obesity.Then, to make matters even worse, she uses this cheap plot device at the end that made me feel like I totally wasted my time reading the story. As for the larger question of whether Pandora would allow her brother to swallow her life whole, I can assure you, without giving away too much, that Shriver manages to redeem this cockamamie scenario in the end. Her husband, Fletcher, reasonably suggests that she rent him a place nearby; that is unacceptable to her. Pandora's brother Edison shows up on her doorstep, broke, down and out and to her utter amazement, overweight, not by just a few pounds, but hundreds.