title: Fat Girl: A True Story
author:  Judith Moore 
description: Moores unflinching memoir sets a new standard for literature about women and their bodies.<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> (Editors Choice)<br /><br />Brilliant and angry and unsettlingthere has never been a book like <i>Fat Girl</i>.<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />A magnificent achievement.Andrew Vachss<br /><br />Riveting.<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i><br /><br />Heartbreaking hard to put down, no matter what the scale says.<i>Marie Claire</i><br /><br />In its abrading wit and honesty, [<i>Fat Girl</i>] deserves to be widely read by anyone whos ever, for whatever sensible-silly reason, felt like hiding.<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br /><br />Bitterly eloquent.<i>New York</i> magazine<br /><br />Moore reveals herself not as just a wounded soul in need of succor but also a world-class sensualist.<i>The Washington Post Book World</i><br /><br />[<i>Fat Girl</i>] documents, with a childs wretched matter-of-factness, the hatred that fatness provokes in others.<i>The New Yorker</i><br /><br />Whats most impressive about this book is its terrifying evocation of how food can bring nearly convulsive pleasure to the body [Moore writes] in a manner both detached and unsentimental, mordantly amusing and unflinching.<i>Elle</i><br /><br />Searingly honest without affectation Moore emerged from her hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.<i>The Seattle Times</i><br /><br />Frank, often funnyintelligent and entertaining.<i>People</i> (starred review)<br /><br />God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest.Anne Lamott<br /><br />Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane.David Sedaris<br /><br />Stark lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart.<i>Newsweek</i><br /><br />A slap-in-the-face of a bookcourageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny.Augusten Burroughs
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