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"What's flesh and blood? Not blood and string and fat like on a joint of meat, but just this person smiling and smiling hard cover at the stupidest things about you," she muses, and thinks, "I'd have given anything for that." Then a stranger named Harris walks into the restaurant and promises to give Amy back her past, claiming to have known her mother. Slowly he draws Amy into his life and introduces her to Gary, the gentle fat man of the title. Prompted by Harris, the two find themselves in an affair; hard cover what's surprising is that hard cover they fall in love, the last thing either of their lives has led them to expect. But Gary has secrets of his own, and is strangely in Harris's thrall. The key to both of their pasts lies on the Greek island of Eknos, where Amy's life comes spiraling together in a way that seems both improbable and true--like everything else in this novel, from its offbeat eroticism to the painful physicality of its prose.
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