She finds nominal success in too-tight bandage dresses, and she obsessively measures food intake while worrying about maximizing her sessions on an elliptical machine. Though Atwood's Joan ultimately carves out a niche for herself on her own terms, Awad's furious and damaged Lizzie is deformed by external pressures. WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDįINALIST FOR THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTIONĪRAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION FOR FICTIONĪwad opens her assured and terrific debut collection of linked stories with a quotation from Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle:"There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin." Roughly following that 1976 novel's coming-of-age trajectory from miserable overweight youth to precarious (but fashion-model size) adulthood, Awad artfully revisits themes related to body mass, femininity, cultural values, and resistance, finding virtually no reasons to be optimistic.
Brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction. In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance.
But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. 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. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks-even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationships-with food, men, girlfriends, her parents and even with herself-you’ll want to grab a friend and say: ‘Whoa. From the author of Bunny, a “hilarious, heartbreaking book ” ( People) about a woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform
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