For 10 points, name this author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
The protagonist of one of this author's novels declares, "Eating nothing is easy. Eating something but not very much is an ever-loving bitch." Her debut novel centers on a 60-year-old anthropologist who has her first love experience with a grad student and is titled The Female of the Species. A recent work by this author is titled for a jazz pianist named Edison who visits Pandora, the novel's narrator. One of her characters writes a children's book about a kid named Spacer who fails to win a sack race at his school; that novel is titled The Post-Birthday World. In a Guardian article, this woman attacked the fat-pride movement for enabling her brother to reach 330 pounds, a theme expanded in her 2013 novel, Big Brother. Her best known work ends with the revelation that the protagonist's husband was killed on the same day that her son, the title character, carried out his (*) school shooting. For 10 points, name this author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
The protagonist of one of this author's novels declares, "Eating nothing is easy.
Lionel Shriver