num_pages: 240
description: I never intended to publish my childhood diaries," says Lori Gottlieb of the journals she stumbled upon. "In fact, I never intended to find them." While rifling through a closet in her parents' house, Gottlieb found something she wasn't looking for and barely remembered existed. The pages of these diaries served as a penetrating and ironic lens through which her younger self viewed the "mixed-up" world that surrounded her. "Of course they aren't overweight," Lori told her psychiatrist when asked if she thought the girls at school who diet are overweight. "Didn't I already say they were popular?"An unflinchingly candid, bitingly funny debut, Stick Figure's compelling mix of irreverent humor and autobiography offers dead-on observances about everything from mothers to the medical profession, gender roles to the absurdities of society's obsession with beauty, and the confusion of being not quite a child, but not quite an adult yet either.
language: English
title: Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
titlecomplete: Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
genres: Psychology, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Mental Illness, Coming Of Age, Health, Mental Health, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 5105
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award
publisher: Berkley