Full name: Heft: A Novel

Author: Liz Moore Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393343885 039334388X

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 baseball 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. Through Arthur and Kel's own quirky and lovable voices, Heft tells the winning story of two improbable heroes whose sudden connection transforms both their lives. Like Elizabeth McCracken's The Giant's House, Heft is a novel about love and family found in the most unexpected places. Similar books: Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell Point of No Return by John P. Marquand Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Daughter of Silence by Morris West The Plot by Irving Wallace The Insult by Rupert Thomson The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd Want Not by Jonathan Miles Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver