![]() Searching the brown eyes, nearly black now so hooded, I think I was trying not to recognize him. “…Edison?” I peered into the round face, its features stretched as if painted on a balloon. When Edison is pushed off the plane in a wheelchair, the reader can’t help but be as galled by his appearance as Pandora is. Her brother, Edison, a New York City jazz pianist, has fallen upon hard times and is coming for a visit. Pandora is a success in Cedar Rapids, having started a pull-string doll business that allows the rich to create customized toys of their loved ones – endowed with their most annoying catchphrases – for yuks. In her new work, Big Brother, Shriver takes on obesity and our culture’s obsession with it. health care system, Shriver makes every carefully chosen word of every sentence pack a predatory bite. Whether the topic is teenaged killers or domestic terrorism or the U.S. ![]() Few novelists go on the attack like Lionel Shriver. ![]()
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