Eat only when you're hungry

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Lindsay Hunter: Eat only when you're hungry (2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

212 pages

English language

Published Oct. 6, 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-14615-3
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OCLC Number:
957021293

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5 stars (2 reviews)

A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts).

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5 stars

This book is storyfeeling: to read it is to feel what the main character feels: the sucking draw of addiction and compulsion, the vertigo of a conversation that is dragged down by so much detritus, the lyricism of life even in the dark corners, the foggy way in which we achieve even a grain of perspective on our own lives. Hunter compels the reader through viscera, pain, momentum, withdrawal, all the while infusing every paragraph with deeply pleasurable technique and insight.

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Subjects

  • Overweight persons
  • Dysfunctional families
  • Fathers and sons
  • Addicts
  • Fiction

Places

  • Florida