More recently, So Much for That (2010) offered a scathing indictment of the U.S. Her controversial breakthrough novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin (2003), considered the possible connection between maternal ambivalence and a Columbine-like high school murder. Shriver, an American-born journalist and novelist who has long lived in the U.K., is drawn to hot-button topics like snackers are to potato chips. In this book, diet protein shakes are thicker than both. 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. Lionel Shriver tackles a whopper of an issue in her new novel, Big Brother: obesity and the emotional connection between weight, consumption, guilt and control. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Big Brother Author Lionel Shriver
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