num_pages: 320
description: The diet revolution is here. And its armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed because when youre fat to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls magazine she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin. Then when a mysterious woman starts following her Plum finds herself falling down a rabbit hole and into an underground community of women who live life on their own terms. There Plum agrees to a series of challenges that force her to deal with her past her doubts and the real costs of becoming beautiful. At the same time a dangerous guerrilla group called Jennifer begins to terrorize a world that mistreats women and as Plum grapples with her personal struggles she becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive.Dietland is a bold original and funny debut novel that takes on the beauty industry gender inequality and our weight loss obsessionfrom the inside out and with fists flying.
language: English
title: Dietland
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt