13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

Resumen del libro

'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY'Echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman' IRISH TIMESLizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight.

With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In this darkly funny, deeply resonant novel, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. 'Luminous...

Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINY'Honest, searing and necessary' ELLE

Biografía del autor

Mona Awad es la exitosa autora de las novelas Bunny, Allx{0026} x02019;s Well y 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Ha sido tres veces finalista de premio Goodreads Choice Award, ha recibido el premio Amazon Best First Novel Award. Bunny, elegido mejor libro de 2019 por diversas publicaciones, está siendo adaptado al cine por Bad Robot Productions. Rouge, su último libro, ha sido un éxito de ventas y ha sido seleccionado como un New York Times Notable Book. Es profesora en el programa de Escritura Creativa de la Universidad de Syracuse. Reside en Boston.