![]() ![]() What's Eating Gilbert Grape, by Peter Hedges (read ) I read this book because the author was born in Iowa and I tend to read Iowa authors when I learn of them. With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa - and a young man's life at the crossroads - Peter Hedges created a classic American novel "charged with sardonic intelligence" (Washington Post Book World). ![]() ![]() As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus - in that order. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. ![]()
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