And I mean that not at all facetiously, because Shriver’s willingness to wade into the controversial waters of contemporary issues, and her ability to do so with consummate intelligence and knowledge without compromising narrative integrity (without, that is, making her characters mouthpieces or her stories object lessons) are what make her work distinctive and consistently interesting. Lionel Shriver, author of “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and “So Much for That,” among other mostly wonderful novels, has a lot to say about a lot of things. This kind of bigness - i.e., fat - comes as a surprise to his little sister Pandora, now a middle-aged woman living in Iowa, running a wildly successful enterprise of her own invention and raising the two children of her somewhat prissy, self-employed, furniture-making, fitness-mad husband, Fletcher.
The “big brother” of this novel’s title is just that - the big brother of the woman who tells the story, and a really big guy.
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