TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hedges,Peter
TI  - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
SN  - 0671870807
U1  - F HED 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pocket Books
KW  - Family life
KW  - Fiction
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Families
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Large type books
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / General
N1  - Photocopied from; New York : Pocket Books, 1994, c1991; (335 p.); 0671870807
N2  - Gilbert Grape is a 24-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert's father, his family never recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert's mother is morbidly obese after seven years of house-bound depression; his younger sister is boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there's Arnie, Gilbert's younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother's main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother. So Gilbert is in a rut-until an enchanting new girl arrives in town. His family gathers for Arnie's 18th birthday and Becky, the mysterious and lovely newcomer, breathes new life into Gilbert's world
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