With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Attenberg delivers an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. "The Middlesteins" explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and society's devastating, fascinating preoccupatio...

With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Attenberg delivers an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. "The Middlesteins" explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and society's devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.