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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: Fiction by Mona Awad (English) Paperback Book

Description: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: Fiction by Mona Awad Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Growing up in a suburban hell Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. She starts dating guys online, but shes afraid to send pictures. So she starts to lose weight. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. 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? A brilliant, hilarious and at times shocking debut about our body image-obsessed culture. Author Biography Mona Awad received her MFA in fiction from Brown University. Her work has appeared in McSweeneys, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and many other journals. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing and English literature at the University of Denver. Review "Honest, searing, and necessary." --Elle "Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning...The way food and body image define Elizabeths life is depressing and sad. But the book is neither. There is so much humor here -- much of it dark, but spot on, like Dolores in Wally Lambs Shes Come Undone or Lena Dunham in Girls." --Washington Post "Heartbreaking . . . [rife] with beauty and humor . . . As addictive as potato chips and as painful as the prospect of eating nothing but 4-ounce portions of steamed fish for the rest of your life." --Chicago Tribune "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 (via GoodReads) "Awad tells Lizzies story from a variety of different perspectives and in different scenes, some deeply funny, some dreamlike, many tragic. Throughout, her prose is lively, while her insight into the often-baffling complexities of being a woman is touching and sharp." --The Atlantic, "The Best Books We Missed This Year" "Awad is a fine writer with a keen sense of black humor, which makes this often sad story more entertaining than you might expect." --Lynn Neary, NPRs "Guide To 2016s Great Reads" "A ferocious look at body image and how it permeates every aspect of our lives. At times funny, at others heart-breaking, this is an important one to read this year." --BookRiot, "The Best Books of 2016, So Far" "Dark and caustically funny...[This] book somehow manages to strike a balance between depressing and hilarious. --Time Out New York, "The 15 Best Books of 2016""Awads sensitive, unflinching depiction of [Lizzies struggle] is a valuable addition to the canon of American womanhood." --Time"Moving." --The New York Times Book Review "A novel in thirteen vignettes about the experience of being a woman dealing with body image issues or simply put: The experience of being a woman. . . . Even someone who has never struggled with her weight should be able to see her teenage self in Awads pages." --The Rumpus"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"Awad explores the sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking ways that a persons struggle with body image can seep into every part of her existence. . . . 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is not really about how Lizzie March looks. . . . [its] about how she sees herself." --Wall Street Journal"Awad portrays Lizzies humiliations with unflinching honesty and a dose of dark humor." --NPR "Its as if the writer has eavesdropped on your most pathetic, smallest thoughts. . . . Awads writing is heartbreaking and witty, while her prose is insightful and sharp-elbowed in its caustic edge. . . . [Lizzie is] a vulnerable, funny and fierce narrator." --The Salt Lake Tribune"Awads satiric edge is on display in her debut novel." --Los Angeles Times "[A] mordant coming-of-age novel." --O, The Oprah Magazine"In this dark, honest debut, Awad sharply observes . . . the struggles of growing up, growing out, and trying to slim down, at any cost." --Marie Claire"The nuance Awad adds to conceptions of weight and body image is applied also to her realizations of female friendships. Lizzies relationships with other women are at once petty and kind, jealous and admiring." --The Huffington Post "Blunt and funny, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is a refreshingly honest look at how society views physical appearance, how we internalize those critiques and how that affects the way we navigate the world." --Mashable "Awads writing is white hot, and deserves to be invoked alongside Gaitskill in its observation and cutting humor, its literary pleasures. Its impossible not to care for Lizzie: not a talking point, but a sweet, calculating, hurt person--that is to say, a real woman, who leaves that scarequote-worthy cliche miles behind. . . . Fantastic new genre-bending fiction." --Tin House "While many women writers are leaning toward a brand of feminism that links all women by making sweeping (and often suffocating) generalizations, Mona Awad insists on difference. . . . Lizzie Smith is not the funny fat girl weve grown used to in literature and popular culture. She isnt a body empty of nuance, but one loaded instead with fluffy musings about what it means, in fact, to be a fat girl. . . . Awads tight control of the narrative and the effective work that the 13 chapters accomplish makes it impossible not to understand why Lizzie is doing what shes doing." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Awad is an incredibly skilled writer, with a rare ability to construct tiny moments of both acute empathy and astonishing depth. . . . [and] a profoundly sensitive understanding of the subject matter. . . . Its impossible not to be deeply affected by [her] prose. . . . A real narrative achievement." --The Globe and Mail (Canada) "[This] darkly comic book isnt afraid to shock." --Minnesota Public Radio, "The Best Books of 2016 (so far)" "Empathetic, engaging and bitingly funny. . . . In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwoods The Edible Woman and Janice Galloways The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl." --The Irish Times "Absorbing . . . Subtle but poignant . . . This sort of intrafeminine aggression will be familiar to most women, whatever side of the body war theyve been on. But it is is a side of experience that hasnt been much explored by literary novelists." --The Guardian "A total must-read . . . Awads raw and empathetic prose is alternately darkly humorous and painful to read. . . . If youre a woman living in the year 2016, youve felt some semblance of doubt, pressure or stress about the way you look. As such, you need to read Mona Awads fantastic new novel." --PureWow "Mona Awad writes exactly what youre thinking, and thats one of the many reasons youre going to love her debut. . . . [13 Ways] announces her as a writer with real insight not only to the mind, but also to the heart." --Bustle, "17 Of 2016s Most Anticipated Books" "Funny and frank." --Vice "As Lizzy examines the body shes never loved, our thins-in, thigh-gap-crazy world comes into focus." --Cosmopolitan "Throughout these often raw, poignant stories, Awad adeptly skewers the culture of fitness and dieting, a constant battle of self-denial. . . . [An] insightful debut." --BookPage"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 "Assured and terrific." --Publishers Weekly "Touching . . . Behind the title of Awads sharp first book, a unique novel in 13 vignettes, is brazen-voiced Lizzie, who longs for, tests, and prods the deep center of the cultural promise that thinness, no matter how one achieves it, is the prerequisite for happiness." --Booklist "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, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake "Hilarious and cutting . . . Mona Awad has a gift for turning the every day 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 and The Isle of Youth "Luminous . . . full of sharp insight and sly humor . . . It seems that Mona Awad can describe the imperfect nature of any love perfectly: whether its love between friends, between mother and daughter, husband and wife, woman and food." --Katherine Heiny, author of Single, Carefree, Mellow"Remarkable . . . committed to the most honest and painful portrayal and comprehension of what it means to be human, with all its flaws and joys." --Brian Evenson, author of Fugue State and Immobility "I loved this book!" --Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans Review Quote "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, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Promotional "Headline" 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. Excerpt from Book ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright & Description for Sales People A funny, shocking and intensely relevant novel about the beauty standards imposed on women. Womens objectification and sexism are issues at the fore of the public consciousness, and feminism is gaining ground. Mona Awad is a smart, cutting and hilarious new voice; her prose is sharp and addictive. She has been published in McSweeneys, The Walrus and elsewhere. Will appeal to readers of Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan and fans of Roxane Gay, Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham. Details ISBN0143128485 Author Mona Awad Short Title 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GI Publisher Penguin Books Language English ISBN-10 0143128485 ISBN-13 9780143128489 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 224 Imprint Penguin USA Subtitle Fiction Country of Publication United States Year 2016 DEWEY FIC Publication Date 2016-02-01 Place of Publication New York Audience General/Trade AU Release Date 2016-02-23 NZ Release Date 2016-02-23 US Release Date 2016-02-23 UK Release Date 2016-02-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97425202;

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