** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RENÉE ZELLWEGER, LOUIE ANDERSON AND OWEN TEAGUE **
Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising sporting career - if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel's mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur's. After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene's unexpected phone call to Arthur - a plea for help - that jostles them into action.
| ISBN: | 9780099558729 |
| Publication date: | 28th March 2013 |
| Author: | Liz Moore |
| Publisher: | Windmill Books an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life Family Drama |