The void at the heart of an economically insecure family is laid bare when an analytical son helps his oblivious father stave off despair by competing in a bodybuilding competition. Grimly hilarious; My Father’s Diet is an elegy for our outmoded conceptions of manhood; as well as a reckoning with a culture incapable of introspection.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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"Adrian Nathan West, one of our best translators, is also one of our best novelists. He gives such solemn care to such mundane American pap and crap even while denying any redemptive power to the effort and it's that denial-sorrowful, but without anger, without delusion-that constitutes his brilliance. My Father's Diet is among the most ruthlessly true chronicles of the culture-of the patrimony-that we, all of us, have ruined." - Joshua Cohen
"Imagine a precise, refined eye looking at all the grotesque realities of mall life in Middle America and you'll have a sense of My Father's Diet. It's as if the Joyce of Dubliners were looking at Akron." - Edmund White
"Imagine a precise, refined eye looking at all the grotesque realities of mall life in Middle America and you'll have a sense of My Father's Diet. It's as if the Joyce of Dubliners were looking at Akron." - Edmund White
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