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Interested in reading this one - adding it to my To Be Read Shelf.

"Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane." ~David Sedaris

Didn't get into this book. Following my 100 page rule, I chose to put it down. Moore makes it sound like she is not in control of her life - food is. She just comes off as whiny. I'm sending it to a Bookcrosser in St. Louis. Perhaps she will like it more than I did.

This was a bleak book. When I first heard about it I thought it would be interesting to read the story about another girl that grew up fat. What I thought as I read the book was that growing up fat was the least of this girl's problems. Yes, she related her childhood in terms of food; she talked about sneaking into her pastor's home to eat his food and about her mother forcing her to diet. But I couldn't help but wonder if her love hate relationship with food, not to mention her self-esteem isses, was less about being fat and more about a childhood that was abusive and traumatic. One of the reviewers was partially right, the book is about the "ravages of love" but I would definitely disagree with the "unblinking candor of being fat" part of her statement.

This isn't a book about being fat. It isn't even a book about growing up fat. It's a book about growing up with a mother that can't see past size and a grandmother that can't see past weight. Any child. fat, thin, athletic, bookish, would have come out of this childhood with fears about their body and issues about the size of the number on their dress. This book left me deeply sad, not just for the author but for all the readers that read this thinking that this is truly a story about being fat.