num_pages: 179
description: It's the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home, and meets people with bodies and abilities as various as the textures of the rocks her friend Felice collects. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a novel about the many shapes of beauty: the fold of a belly, the green swelling of seedlings, the sharp edges of granite, obsidian, and flint. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a coming of age story. It is a coming out story, and for Char, it is a story of coming into her own body -- all the way to the edges of her skin.
language: English
title: Fat Girl Dances With Rocks
titlecomplete: Fat Girl Dances With Rocks (Coming of Age)
genres: Young Adult, Queer, Fat, Feminism, LGBT, Fiction, Fat Studies
ratings_count: 80
publisher: Spinsters Ink