Title: The Middlesteins
Description: Two siblings with very different personalities attempt to take control of their mother's food obsession and massive weight gain to save her life after their father walks out and leaves her reeling in the Chicago suburbs.
Subjects: Life change events, Families, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Food habits, Family life, Fiction, family life, Middle west, fiction, Jews, fiction, Family saga, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Large type books
Places: Middle West