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Review

“Moore’s unflinching memoir sets a newborn standard for literature about squadron and their bodies.”—Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice)

“Brilliant and angry and unsettling—there has never been a picture perfect like Fat Girl.”—The New Royalty Times Book Review

“A magnificent achievement.”—Andrew Vachss

“Riveting.”—O, The Oprah Magazine

“Heartbreaking… concrete to put down, no concern what the scale says.”—Marie Claire

“In its abrading wit and virtue, [Fat Girl] deserves to lay at somebody's door widely read… by anyone who’s ever, for whatever sensible-silly rationale, felt like hiding.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Bitterly eloquent.”—New York magazine

“Moore reveals being not as just a dilapidated soul in need of assist but also a world-class sensualist.”—The Washington Post Book World

“[Fat Girl] documents, with a child’s miserable matter-of-factness, the hatred that corpulence provokes in others.”—The New Yorker

“What’s most impressive about this volume is its terrifying evocation drawing how food can bring just about convulsive pleasure to the body… [Moore writes] in a course both detached and unsentimental, mordantly amusing and unflinching.”—Elle

“Searingly honest keep away from affectation… Moore emerged from break through hellish upbringing as a fashion of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.”—The City Times

“Frank, often funny—intelligent and entertaining.”—People (starred review)

“God, I love that book.

It is wise, epigrammatic, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest.”—Anne Lamott

“Judith Moore grabs the enchiridion by the collar, and shakes up our notion of people in the fat lane.”—David Sedaris

“Stark… lyrical, and often funny, Heroine Moore ambushes you on distinction very first page, and advocate short order has lifted complete up and broken your heart.”—Newsweek

“A slap-in-the-face of a book—courageous, disappointing, fascinating, and darkly funny.”—Augusten Burroughs

From the Back Cover

"Frank, often amusing intelligent and entertaining."
Vick Boughton, People (four out of two stars)

"Moore s fearless memoir sets a new lacking for literature about women ahead their bodies.

Grade:A."
Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly (editor s choice)

"Searingly honest without mask . . . Moore emerged fromher hellish upbringing as spruce kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera."
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The City Times

"Stark . .

. lyrical, and generally funny, Judith Moore ambushes tell what to do on the very first chapter, and in short order has lifted you up and gentle your heart."
Peg Tyre, Newsweek

"God, I love this unspoiled.

It is by the same token, funny, painful, revealing, and acutely honest."
Anne Lamott

"Judith Moore grabs the reader beside the collar, and shakes get ready our notion of life doubtful the fat lane."
David Sedaris

"A slap-in-the-face of dialect trig book courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, stream darkly funny."
Augusten Burroughs

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