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Moose, June 2008
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A Memoir of Fat Camp
William Morrow
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0060843292
EAN: 9780060843298
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Non-Fiction Memoir
With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the
author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty
offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of
adolescence While she is pregnant
with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends
Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds."
Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and
embarrassment comes flooding back. Though she is determined
to gain the weight for the health of her babies—even if it
means she'll "weigh more than a Honda"—she can only express
her deep fear by telling her doctor simply, "I used to be
fat." Klein was an eighth grader with a weight
problem. It was a problem at school, where the boys called
her "Moose," and it was a problem at home, where her father
reminded her, "No one likes fat girls." After many
frustrating sessions with a nutritionist known as the fat
doctor of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, Klein's parents
enrolled her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to return
to school thin and popular, without her "lard arms" and
"puckered ham," Stephanie embarked on a memorable journey
that would shape more than just her body. It would shape her
life. In the ever-shifting terrain between fat and
thin, adulthood and childhood, cellulite and starvation,
Klein shares the cutting details of what it truly feels like
to be an overweight child, from the stinging taunts of
classmates, to the off-color remarks of her own father, to
her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own
body. Calling upon her childhood diary entries, Klein
reveals her deepest thoughts and feelings from that
turbulent, hopeful time, baring her soul and making her
heartache palpable. Whether Klein is describing her
life as a chubby adolescent camper—getting weighed on a meat
scale, petting past curfew, and "chunky dunking" in the
lake—or what it's like now as a fit mother, having one-sided
conversations with her newborn twins about the therapy
they'll one day need, this hilarious yet grippingly
vulnerable book will remind you what it was like to feel
like an outsider, to desperately seek the right outfit, the
right slang, the best comeback, or whatever that
unattainable something was that would finally make you fit in.
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