![]() ![]() "It pained me how pleasureless it could only have been to binge on wheatgerm," she observes. ![]() But as his visit gradually extends from weeks into months, a dismayed Pandora watches him eat his way through almost everything in sight. Into this already faintly precarious family dynamic comes Pandora's older brother Edison, a once hip and sexy jazz musician who, to Pandora's "dizzying sorrow" (especially when she fails to recognise him at the airport) now weighs in at 386lb.Įdison is between gigs. "Consumed with control", he rides his bicycle for hours each day and follows a diet so "stringent" that simply being "in his physical presence" makes Pandora feel "chided". ![]() Pandora's husband, Fletcher, meanwhile is a maker of "high-end custom furniture" that no one wants to buy. (It's a real tribute to Shriver's wit and imagination that not only are the details of the hilariously brilliant "Baby Monotonous" convincing, but you feel she should rush to patent it before someone else does.) Pandora, the 40-year-old stepmother of two teenagers, runs an "offbeat" novelty doll business that has gone "viral" and made her rich and a bit famous. ![]()
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