Bienvenue chez les Middlestein, une famille aussi irrésistible que dysfonctionnelle, minée par l'appétit hors norme de la matriarche. Un roman à dévorer d'une traite !Grandeur et décadence d'une famille juive de Chicago, confrontée à l'appétit dévorant d'une mère. Best-seller du New York Times, élu livre du mois d'Amazon lors de sa parution, dans la lignée de Jonathan Franzen, un livre universel sur le mariage, la filiation et l'obsession de notre société pour la n...

From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn.Shelly, the younger of the...

Per più di trent'anni Edie e Richard Middlestein hanno condiviso la vita – una solida famiglia di Chicago, due figli, una bella casa, un buon lavoro, molti amici. Ma tutto viene sconvolto perché Edie mangia troppo. È tormentata dal cibo, pensa solo a quello e agisce di conseguenza – se non riuscirà a smettere non le rimarrà molto da vivere. Quando Richard decide alla fine di lasciare sua moglie, tocca ai figli prendere il controllo della situazione. Robin, polemica e irrisolta ma generosa,...

'Hilarious, courageous and mesmerising' Maria Semple'Think BBC's Fleabag set in Brooklyn' Stylist'I'm alone. I'm a drinker. I'm a former artist. I'm a shrieker in bed. I'm the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh.'Andrea is a single, childless 39-year-old woman who tries to navigate family, sexuality, friendships and a career she never wanted, but battles with thoughts and desires that few people w...

"The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages" - Jonathan FranzenEdie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them-even their own children Robin and Benny-agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, but no one expected Richard to walk out on her, especially not in her condition. Edie is fifty-nine years old, she weighs 300 pounds, and her doctors have told her she'll die if she doesn't stop...

A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up isa wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves unsaid—she’s alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shriek...

Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex can finally unearth the secret of who he really was. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.As Barbra fends off Alex's unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous married life. Meanwhile Gary, Alex's brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Ange...

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer.“If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father, Victor, is on his deathbed, Alex—a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister—feels she can finally unearth th...

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity—and how it saved her life.In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction” (Entertainment Weekly) and the “poet laureate of difficult ...

“We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It’s enough to make you give up entirely.” —from Instant LoveBut we don’t give up. We keep trying. We’re either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly believe that the next time will be different; it’s hard to say which. Driven by the mad hopefulness that is part of the human condition, we are constantly falling i...

Difficile non restare affascinati da Mazie Phillips, grande cuore, corpo esuberante, passione sfrenata per la vita, libera da ogni conformismo. Di giorno nel gabbiotto del Cinema Venice a vendere biglietti, a osservare la gente. Di notte per le strade in cerca di avventure, buone bevute e un modo per dimenticare le fatiche della vita. Tutti conoscevano Mazie Phillips, era la regina del quartiere, perché aveva sempre una parola, una sigaretta, un goccio di liquore o qualche centesimo per tu...

A tender, provocative story about the power of friendship, the thrill of self-discovery, and the strength it takes to escape the past.Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. She's also left behind her deepest, most shameful secrets-among them a dysfunctional family she's never quit...