Heft

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<p><b>** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RENÉE ZELLWEGER, LOUIE ANDERSON AND OWEN TEAGUE **</b></p><p>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 sporting 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.</p>

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Liz Moore is the author of the novels<i>The Words of Every Song</i>(2007) and<i>Heft</i>(2012), along with works of short fiction and creative nonfiction that have been published in print and online in venues such as<i>The New York Times, Tin House, Narrative Magazine, The Tottenville Review,</i>and<i>The Drum</i>. She is also a professor of writing at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, where she lives..

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