Jami Attenberg writes contemporary literary fiction about families, appetite, money, loneliness and people whose private habits sit awkwardly beside the lives others expect them to lead. The Middlesteins follows a Chicago-area Jewish family as Edie Middlestein's compulsive eating and declining health expose tensions among her husband, children and daughter-in-law. All Grown Up centres on Andrea Bern, a single New Yorker resisting conventional milestones, while Saint Mazie fictionalises the life of a real Bowery cinema ticket-seller who helped people living on the streets. Attenberg's novels are character-led, sharp and often funny without smoothing away selfishness or discomfort. Her work fits contemporary family fiction and urban literary fiction, with a readership overlapping writers such as Meg Wolitzer and Emma Straub. Read more Less
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