13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Mona Awad

Name: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl By Mona Awad
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

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Summary

Growing up in suburban hell, Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. A darkly funny novel about the harmful beauty standards imposed on women.

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Summary

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: From the author of TikTok phenomenon BUNNY by Mona Awad

'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY. 'Echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman' IRISH TIMES. Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In this darkly funny, deeply resonant novel, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. 'Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINY. 'Honest, searing and necessary' ELLE.

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Reviews

In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl * Irish Times *
Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour -- Katherine Heiny
[A] beautiful, necessary book -- Roxane Gay
Honest, searing, and necessary... 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl peels back the curtain on the struggles of entering womanhood from body image, to relationships, to merely navigating the oh-so-cruel world * Elle *
Awad deftly captures the many indignities that she - that women - experience around food and weight... Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning * Washington Post *
Shocking, sad, important and tender; this is a powerful rollercoaster of a read * Daily Mail *
[A] clever debut... The themes may be sobering but Awad examines them with a deliciously wry humour * Mail on Sunday *

About Mona Awad

Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the U.S. on and off since 2003. A graduate of York University in Toronto, her debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, won the 2016 Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize. She is currently a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Denver. Her second novel, Bunny, is also published by Head of Zeus.

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Sku

GOR010115049

ISBN 13

9781788549684

ISBN 10

1788549686

Title

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: From the author of TikTok phenomenon BUNNY by Mona Awad

Author

Mona Awad

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

20191114

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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