While I was reading this book, I thought about food. The book follows this journey, but also generally discusses food, our relationship with it, and the statistics of size in the United States. Once Pandora gets over the initial shock of seeing ‘the new Edison’, she commits to joining him on a journey of weight loss, putting her marriage, family and life as she knows it on the line.
But I didn’t like any of the characters, and in some places I didn’t even like the writing. Somehow, there was just enough in the characters for me to recognise bits of people I know, and so I got suckered in, even while holding it at arm’s length.ĭoes that even make sense?! See, it’s a conundrum! This book was, until a certain point, quite a conundrum for me. In the four years since the siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds.
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. And it made me want to read We Need to Talk About Kevin again. It’s been a while since my last one – long library wait lists mean I’ve so far missed out on the last two books for the Pink Fibro Bookclub facebook group – but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading!Įarlier this year, a friend gave me a copy of Lionel Shriver’s Big Brother for my birthday, knowing that I’d been utterly captivated by her book We Need to Talk About Kevin. Time for another book review of the grown-up variety.
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