The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A "warm, funny, and honest...genuinely unputdownable" memoir (Curtis Sittenfeld) chronicling what it's like to live in today's world as a fat man. Journalist Tommy Tomlinson, approaching fifty and weighing 460 pounds, decided to confront the risks and realities of living in a body at war with itself.

At risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke-and unable to climb stairs or fly without two seats-Tomlinson had long lived in denial. Raised in a food-lovin...