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4.0
Read on the twitter recommendation of Roxane Gay and I am so glad I went out of my way to find the book. This was a road trip novel, but so much more. It delved into themes of human connections, how our our view of bodies can inform the way we move in the world and the way we conduct our relationships in the world even more than we realize. It meant so much to me that the protagonist was fat, because she was a fully realized and sexual woman, whose existence was not defined by losing weight, and who, despite the natural ambivalence that being a fat person in a world that seeks to shame you, wanted to love herself as she was, not as everyone wanted her to be. The writing was really lovely, and there were very homey images--the sewing, the baking, the caring--that will stay with me for a long time. Really great.
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