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02476aam a2200301 i 4500 001 95D24C60122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 210417t20222022enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 9781913505226 020 $a 1913505227 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3623.E825 $b M94 2022 050 4 $a PS3623.E882 $b M94 2022 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a West, Adrian Nathan, $e author. 245 10 $a My father's diet / $c Adrian Nathan West. 264 1 $a Sheffield : $b And Other Stories, $c 2022. 300 $a 173 pages ; $c 20 cm. 520 $a In a broken-down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family -- its ambitions and emotions worn thin -- is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son. While studying at the local community college to finish his degree, he works what his divorced parents deem to be menial jobs and tries to stay out of their way, keeping his pitiless observations about their lives to himself. He says nothing about his semi-estranged father's doomed attempts to find meaning in the world. He says nothing about his mother's willingness to subjugate herself to men he deems unworthy. He says nothing about the anonymity and emptiness to which their social classes and places of birth seem to have condemned everyone he knows, robbing them of even the vocabulary to express their grievances. He says nothing about his own pity, disgust, compassion, disdain, tenderness, and love for them. But when another in a long line of his father's boozy relationships falls apart, something changes. He wants to have a chat with his boy. The son fully expects to be talking his dad out of committing suicide, but no: the old man has other plans for his carcass. He has, in fact, entered a bodybuilding competition, and wants his son's help to get fit. If the alternative is despair, how can the son refuse? Instantly relatable, impeccably realized, and grimly hilarious, "My Father's Diet" is equal parts Kierkegaard, "This Side of Paradise," and "Pumping Iron" -- the perfect, bite-sized novel for a world always keen to mistake narcissism for introspection. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Bodybuilding $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Middle West $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024925.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220802013733.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95D24C60122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search