A Novel Worth Reading
---- Book Review on What¡¯s Eating Gilbert Grape
"I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason." said Peter Hedges, author of the book What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and the book has helped him realize this wish.
Gilbert Grape, a 24-year-old GenXer, lives in Endora, a dying small town where life is ¡°like dancing to no music.¡± He works at a grocery, whose business is threatened by the newly opened supermarket. Gilbert¡¯s mother, who was once the town sweetheart, has not stopped eating since her husband hanged himself in the basement, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. His elder sister Amy still mourns the death of Elvis and the fact that her boyfriend dumped her. Ellen, the younger sister who is hooked on makeup......

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