num_pages: 308
description: Jamie is a senior in high school and like so many kids in that year doing too muchincluding trying to change the worldand fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises all kinds of questions so too must she find her own private way in her world with love popping up in an unexpected place and satisfaction in her size losing ground to real frustration. Tapping into her own experience losing weight her training as a psychotherapist and the current fascination in the media for teens who are trying drastic weight-loss measures including surgery Susan Vaught's searing and hilarious prose will grip readers of all sizes leaving them eager to hear more.
language: English
title: Big Fat Manifesto
publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens