For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along
nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come
charging out of the closet, and her father has long since
dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat
terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The
Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with
her plus-size body.
But the day she opens up a
national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a
Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is
plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life.
From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she
charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing
her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can
become.