Dietland
by:
Sarai Walker (author)
The diet revolution is here. And it’s armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls’ magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only...
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The diet revolution is here. And it’s armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls’ magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin. Then, when a mysterious wo
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780544373433 (054437343X)
ASIN: 054437343X
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Dietland was a fantastic revenge-style feminist story that I picked up on a whim from my library. It follows Plum Kettle, an over-weight young woman who’s tried everything to lose weight and is miserable in her own skin. She’s scheduled for gastric bypass surgery, but she meets the daughter of the w...
"I think there might be something good about being fat,' I said. It felt good to say the word fat. I had always avoided it, but it had the same thrust as fuck and the same power-an illicit f-word, the top teeth digging into the bottom lip, spewing the single syllable: fat. "Because I'm fat, I know h...
I don't think I've ever read a character quite like Plum before, certainly no one that spoke to me in the way she did. As a fat woman, even though I never went through the dieting hell that Plum puts herself through, I definitely went through the shame of having a body that (society tells us) doesn'...
I bought this book shortly after it came out but moved it up the queue when I learned it's being made into a TV series helmed by Marti Noxon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and UnREAL fame); having read it now, I'm excited for the show. Here's a synopsis of the book from the Entertainment Weekly articl...
Dietland was the first pick in The Militant Baker's book club. I liked the premise of the story so I picked it up, and I enjoyed reading it in parts. Having finished today, it feels like I read two different books fused together and they didn't even out. This is the story of a young woman called P...
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