The Middlesteins

Name: The Middlesteins
Author: Jami Attenberg

by Jami Attenberg

Novel centered on chaotic family dinners exploring identity and food relationships

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Jami Attenberg

American novelist whose The Middlesteins explores a dysfunctional Jewish family with mordant wit. Her fiction of New Orleans and New York life is celebrated for its warmth and intelligence. She is an important voice in contemporary American urban fiction.

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