Born Round

How a man with a lifelong battle of the bulge landed the job as the restaurant critic for the New York Times,  the most influential job in the food world, is only half the story  (more like a third, really) in Frank Bruni's brave, brutally honest,  often hilarious, and truly endearing memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater. Bruni struggled with over-eating since he was a boy growing up in a  food-focused family in White Plains, NY. From adolescence through  adulthood, Bruni was on the losing side of maintaining a healthy  relationship with food, and eventually his inability to control his  hunger--manifested in bulimia, convenience store binges, and bouts of  sleep eating--defined his life. There aren't many books out there  dealing with what it's like to be a man with an eating disorder. While  Bruni's story is peppered with humor, his disgust at himself as he  yo-yo's up to size 42 khakis at the Gap and endures years-long patches  of celibacy leaves the reader aching in empathy