"The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages, but it wasn't until its final pages that I fully appreciated the range of Attenberg's sympathy and the artistry of her storytelling."-Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom . For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's fixated on food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.
