num_pages: 212
description: A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts)In Lindsay Hunters achingly funny fiercely honest second novel Eat Only When Youre Hungry we meet Gregan overweight fifty-eight-year-old and the father of Greg Junior GJ who has been missing for three weeks. GJs been an addict his whole adult life disappearing for days at a time but for some reason this absence feels different and Greg has convinced himself that hes the only one who can find his son. So he rents an RV and drives from his home in West Virginia to the outskirts of Orlando Florida the last place GJ was seen. As we travel down the streets of the bizarroland that is Florida the urgency to find GJ slowly recedes into the background and the truths about Gregs mistakesas a father a husband a manare uncovered.In Eat Only When Youre Hungry Hunter elicits complex sympathy for her characters asking the reader to take a closer look at the way we think about addictionwhy we demonize the junkie but turn a blind eye to drinking a little too much or eating too muchand the fallout of failing ourselves.
language: English
title: Eat Only When You're Hungry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux