"[An] unusually honest, painfully funny novel about a tight-knit
family's struggle." --Entertainment Weekly
"My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest
who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong
residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush the
toilet and shut off the lights."
Twenty-six-year-old Frannie Hunter has just moved back home. Bright,
wry, blunt, and irreverent, she invites you to witness her family's
unraveling. Her Harvard-bound sister is anorexic, her mother is having
an affair, her father is obsessed with the Food Network, and her
grandfather wants to plan her wedding (even though she has no fiancé,
let alone a steady boyfriend).
By turns wickedly funny and heartbreakingly bittersweet, Hunger Point
chronicles Frannie's triumph over her own self-destructive tendencies,
and offers a powerful exploration of the complex relationships that bind
together a contemporary American family. You will never forget Frannie,
a "sultry, suburban Holden Caulfield," whom critics have called "the
most fully realized character to come along in years," (Paper) nor
will you forget Hunger Point, an utterly original novel that stuns
with its amazing insights and dazzles with its fresh, distinctive voice.
