{"product_id":"9780374715991","title":"Eat Only When You're Hungry: A Novel","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2017 \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Award and a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR Great Read\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecommended\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e reading by \u003ci\u003eNylon, Buzzfeed, Vulture, Lit Hub, Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith this novel, Hunter establishes herself as an unforgettable voice in American letters. Her work here, as ever, is unparalleled.\" —Roxane Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Achingly funny and full of feeling, \u003ci\u003eEat Only When \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou're Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e follows fifty-eight-year-old Greg as he searches for his son, GJ, an addict who has been missing for three weeks. Greg is bored, demoralized, obese, and as dubious of GJ's desire to be found as he is of his own motivation to go looking. Almost on a whim, Greg embarks on a road trip to central Florida—a noble search for his son, or so he tells himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Greg takes us on a tour of highway and roadside, of Taco Bell, KFC, gas-station Slurpees, sticky strip-club floors, pooling sweat, candy wrappers and crumpled panes of cellophane and wrinkled plastic bags tumbling along the interstate. This is the America Greg knows, one he feels closer to than to his youthful idealism, closer even than to his younger second wife. As his journey continues, through drive-thru windows and into the living rooms of his alluring ex-wife and his distant, curmudgeonly father, Greg's urgent search for GJ slowly recedes into the background, replaced with a painstaking, illuminating, and unavoidable look at Greg's own mistakes—as a father, as a husband, and as a man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Brimming with the same visceral regret and joy that leak from the fast food Greg inhales, \u003ci\u003eEat \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnly When You're Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild and biting study of addiction, perseverance, and the insurmountable struggle to change. With America's desolate underbelly serving as her guide, Lindsay Hunter elicits a singular type of sympathy for her characters, using them to challenge our preconceived notions about addiction and to explore the innumerable ways we fail ourselves.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121378279664,"sku":"9780374715991","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374715991_p0.jpg?v=1769917256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374715991","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}