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A darkly funny, deeply resonant, and exquisitely written literary debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is the story of one woman's journey from fat adolescence to an ex-fat adulthood, as she seeks love and acceptance from everyone except herself. Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks--even though her best friend Mel says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose weight. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. As caustically funny as it is heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction.

About the Author :
Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the US on and off since 2003. A graduate of York University in Toronto, she received her MFA in fiction from Brown University and her MScR in English literature from the University of Edinburgh, where she wrote her dissertation on fear and the fairy tale, graduating with distinction. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, the Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and elsewhere. She has worked as an instructor in the Literary Arts department at Brown University and as a bookseller for various independent bookstores including Pages in Toronto, the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City and Blackwell Books in Edinburgh. She has also worked as a freelance journalist and a food columnist for the Montreal-based magazine Maisonneuve; her essay "The Shrinking Woman," which appeared in that magazine, was a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award. Jorjeana Marie has worked extensively as an actress, comedian, writer, and audiobook narrator. As a stand-up comic, she often opens for renowned talents such as Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, and Louis C.K.

Review :
"[A] mordant coming-of-age novel." -- "O, The Oprah Magazine" "A hilarious, heartbreaking book." -- "People" "A painfully raw--and bitingly funny--debut...[Lizzie] gets under your skin, and she stays there. Beautifully constructed; a devastating novel but also a deeply empathetic one." -- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" "Absorbing...Subtle but poignant...This sort of intrafeminine aggression will be familiar to most women, whatever side of the body war they've been on. But it is is a side of experience that hasn't been much explored by literary novelists." -- "Guardian" "Assured and terrific." -- "Publishers Weekly" "Awad's sensitive, unflinching depiction of [Lizzie's struggle] is a valuable addition to the canon of American womanhood." -- "Time" "Gutting...Awad gets everything right and, throughout these interconnected stories, reveals how absurd our culture is about women and their bodies. Several sections had me in tears...I highly recommend this one." -- "Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist" "Hilarious and cutting...Mona Awad has a gift for turning the everyday strange and luminous, for finding bright sparks of humor in the deepest dark. She is a strikingly original and strikingly talented new voice." -- "Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me" "Honest, searing, and necessary." -- "Elle" "This book sparkles with wit and at the same time comes across as so transparent and genuine--Awad knows how to talk about the raw struggles of female friendships, sex, contact, humanness, and her voice is a wry celebration of all of this at once." -- "Aimee Bender, New York Times bestselling author" "With dark humor and heartbreaking honesty, Awad cuts away at diet culture and the pressure on women to make thinness and beauty their priority." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "You'll want to grab a friend and say: 'Whoa. This. Exactly.'" -- "Washington Post"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781504742399
  • Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1504742397
  • Publisher Date: 10 May 2016
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 147 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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