num_pages: 352
description:  Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire though.Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body but it's hard and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner lighter slimmer-faced straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian the first worthwhile guy to notice her everything is perfect until she learns one thing--he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? UGHHH. Everything is now officially a MESS.A sensitive funny and painful coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme Fat Chance Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents our bodies our cultures and ourselves.
language: English
title: Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
publisher: Holiday House