Fat Girl: A True Story
by:
Judith Moore (author)
For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of...
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For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore’s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452285859 (0452285852)
Publish date: February 28th 2006
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 196
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Adult,
Health,
Biography Memoir,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Psychology,
Womens
I didn't find this to be "brilliantly rendered" at all. It was pretty much all over the place, and it ended in a weird spot. I get that this was supposed to be about her struggle with weight and food, but she just talked a lot about her youth and relationships, especially with her mother. Not really...
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