This ambitious first novel by David Whitehouse features a humongous protagonist at its comic center. Mal Ede, world's fattest man and bed-bound grotesque, finds his reluctant Boswell in his put-upon younger brother. Part parable of contemporary excess, part portrait of a dysfunctional family, the outrageous narrative evokes comparisons to Junot Díaz and John Kennedy Toole.
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