While Edelson’s novel wasn’t inspiring or kind to bodies, it does show the gray areas — love and hate — of relationships fat women have with their bodies. It looks at how losing fat doesn’t change a fat person.
This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record #photography #YA @featherproof
Overall, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record cracks open doors but never explores what’s in the room.
Meet the Writer: Jodi Paloni @Press53 @JodiPaloni #environment #poetry #fiction #giveaway
Sure, I’ll be Wren for a day. I’ll pick a lovely spring morning when the sun is hot, but there’s still a hint of melting snow. The stream is rushing. Addison’s just said good-bye to his ex-wife, once and for all. Wren and Addison both have the whole day off.
Fat Girl Dances With Rocks #LGBT #ownvoices @SusanStinson
A unique coming-of-age novel with diverse characters that meets the criteria for a fat-positive novel.
Misadventures of Fatwoman #fiction #chicklit
Andi’s fat obsession neuters her. It takes away her agency and renders her passive.
Meet the Writer: Susan Stinson
“Writing pain and fatness together is tricky, because many people assume that is all that fat people are.” –Susan Stinson
Fat Girl by Jessie Carty #Poetry #Poems
“I’m staunchly against dissecting the fat female body like a frog in biology…”
Dust Tracks on a Road #BlackLit #Autobiography
Hurston was wired by Lippincott stating they wanted to publisher her book. She explains her reaction: “I never expect to have a greater thrill than that wire gave me. You know the feeling when you found your first pubic hair? Greater than that.”
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs #essays #humor #LGBT #FatNonfiction
Overall, Peck’s Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs reads like a good candidate for a memoir class, one in which a smart teacher would point Peck toward the gold to be meaningfully mined and away from the you-had-to-be-there tales you tell friends at dinner.
Meet the Writer: Olivia Kate Cerrone
“The sense of wonder and possibility of storytelling has never left me.”
