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—David Sedaris "A slap-in-the-face of a book—courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny." —Augusten Burroughs Author Biography JUDITH MOORE, recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim selected Fellowship, is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Never Eat Your Heart Out, selected a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the books editor and senior editor selected for the San Diego Reader. FROM THE CRITICSJane Stern - The New York TimesJudith Moore's book just might be the Stonewall for a slew of oversize people who do not fit the template of what every ostensible expert on beauty, health and nutrition tells us we should strive to be. Fat Girl is brilliant and angry and unsettling.Publishers WeeklyIn her memoir of growing up fat, Moore, who previously wrote about food in Never Eat Your Heart Out, employs her edgy, refreshingly candid voice to tell the story of a little girl who weighed 112 pounds in second grade; whose father abandoned her to a raging, wicked mother straight out of the Brothers Grimm; whose lifelong dieting endeavors failed as miserably as her
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