Future Perfect

"Ashley Perkins is a 17-year-old biracial Latina girl growing up in her grandmother’s house. She’s smart, funny, driven, ambitious — and fat; so far as her grandmother is concerned, that last quality obliterates everything else. Every year, Ashley’s grandmother offers her birthday gifts in exchange for losing weight, and every year Ashley rejects them out of hand — until the year her grandmother offers her full tuition to Harvard in exchange for weight-loss surgery. For the first time, Ashley finds herself seriously considering making the horrific bargain — and the book follows her temptations and resistance, her friendships and soul-searching. A gorgeous, fiercely moving debut."