13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl: Fiction

"The title of this book might be off-putting — after all, the word “fat” makes people uncomfortable. We prefer euphemisms like “chubby” or “big.” But novelist Mona Awad uses the word deliberately. She wants her readers to understand how a struggle with body image can take over a life. Lizzie, the fat girl of the title, is an insecure, overweight young woman who lets men take advantage of her in humiliating ways. Later we meet her as an older, thin woman, obsessed with staying fit, but big or small, happiness eludes her. Awad is a fine writer with a keen sense of black humor, which makes this often sad story more entertaining than you might expect."