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Skyscape
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
276 pages
ISBN: 1477829385
EAN: 9781477829387
Kindle: B00PG8UCH2
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I’m the fat Puerto Rican–Polish girl who doesn’t feel
like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that
matter. I’ve always been too much and yet not
enough. Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn’t always fat,
but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as
her mama, who is so big she hasn’t gotten out of bed in
months. Not as heavy as her brother, Skunk, who has more
meanness in him than fat, which is saying something. But
she’s large enough to be the object of ridicule wherever she
is: at the grocery store, walking down the street, at
school. Sugar’s life is dictated by taking care of Mama in
their run-down home—cooking, shopping, and, well, eating. A
lot of eating, which Sugar hates as much as she
loves. When Sugar meets Even (not Evan—his nearly
illiterate father misspelled his name on the birth
certificate), she has the new experience of someone seeing
her and not her body. As their unlikely friendship
builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for
the first time, a future not weighed down by her body or her
mother. Soon Sugar will have to decide whether to
become the girl that Even helps her see within herself or to
sink into the darkness of the skin-deep role her family and
her life have created for her.
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