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Hunger Point - by  Jillian Medoff (Paperback) - 1 of 1

Hunger Point - by Jillian Medoff (Paperback)

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  • "[An] unusually honest, painfully funny novel about a tight-knit family's struggle.
  • Author(s): Jillian Medoff
  • 384 Pages
  • Fiction, Family Life

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"[An] unusually honest, painfully funny novel about a tight-knit family's struggle." --Entertainment Weekly

"My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush the toilet and shut off the lights."

Twenty-six-year-old Frannie Hunter has just moved back home. Bright, wry, blunt, and irreverent, she invites you to witness her family's unraveling. Her Harvard-bound sister is anorexic, her mother is having an affair, her father is obsessed with the Food Network, and her grandfather wants to plan her wedding (even though she has no fiancé, let alone a steady boyfriend).

By turns wickedly funny and heartbreakingly bittersweet, Hunger Point chronicles Frannie's triumph over her own self-destructive tendencies, and offers a powerful exploration of the complex relationships that bind together a contemporary American family. You will never forget Frannie, a "sultry, suburban Holden Caulfield," whom critics have called "the most fully realized character to come along in years," (Paper) nor will you forget Hunger Point, an utterly original novel that stuns with its amazing insights and dazzles with its fresh, distinctive voice.



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"Recklessly candid." - New York Times

"Wonderfully obsessive...bitterly funny." - Vanity Fair

"This fine first novel is so winning and funny, you'll laugh instead of cry." - Mademoiselle

"Medoff's successful debut chronicles both the struggles and ultimate triumph of a heroine who must graduate from cracking wise to actual wisdom." - Glamour

"Memorable...Frannie [is an] appealing character whose story is engaging." - Publishers Weekly

"[Hunger Point] confronts the terrors of anorexia and other modern ills with empathy and understanding." - People


Dimensions (Overall): 8.07 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .92 Inches (D)
Weight: .64 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 384
Genre: Fiction
Sub-Genre: Family Life
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Theme: Siblings
Format: Paperback
Author: Jillian Medoff
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2002
TCIN: 1005995018
UPC: 9780060989231
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-1631
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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