208 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2006 by Plume.
For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F. K.Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore's deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.
I started off really disliking this book, it seemed self obsessed and whiny. However as it went on I started to warm to the writer and sympathise with the shitty ways people treated her because she was fat. Can't help but wish it had a nice happy ending where she started to appreciate herself though.
