Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection INSTANT LOVE and three novels: THE KEPT MAN, THE MELTING SEASON and THE MIDDLESTEINS. She has contributed essays and criticism to The New York Times, Print, Nylon, Slate, Time Out New York, BookForum, Nerve and many other publications. A blogger since 1998, she received the Village Voice's Blog Post of the Year award for 2010. She lives in New York and is originally from Chicago.

Books by Jami Attenberg

The Middlesteins

by Jami Attenberg - Fiction

For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, seemingly for one reason: Edie's enormous girth. When Richard abandons her, it is up to the next generation of Middlesteins to take control. Do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?

The Kept Man

by Jami Attenberg