Fat Chance, Charlie Vega (PB)
352 pages | PaperbackĆ
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 itĆ¢ā¬ā¢s hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesnĆ¢ā¬ā¢t help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired.Ć Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter.
But thereĆ¢ā¬ā¢s one person whoĆ¢ā¬ā¢s always in CharlieĆ¢ā¬ā¢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 thingĆ¢ā¬āhe asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her?
Because itĆ¢ā¬ā¢s time people did.
A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme,Ć Fat Chance, Charlie VegaĆ tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.
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352 pages | PaperbackĆ
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 itĆ¢ā¬ā¢s hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesnĆ¢ā¬ā¢t help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired.Ć Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter.
But thereĆ¢ā¬ā¢s one person whoĆ¢ā¬ā¢s always in CharlieĆ¢ā¬ā¢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 thingĆ¢ā¬āhe asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her?
Because itĆ¢ā¬ā¢s time people did.
A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme,Ć Fat Chance, Charlie VegaĆ tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.
