Interview with Liz Moore author of "Heft"
Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn\u2019t 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\u2013if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel\u2019s mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur\u2019s.