"Stunning...As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationships - with food men girlfriends
her parents and even with herself - you'll want to grab a friend and say: 'Whoa. This.
Exactly.'" -Washington Post "A hilarious heartbreaking book." -People Named one of the best
books of the year by NPR The Atlantic Time Out New York and The Globe and Mail Growing up
in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga) Lizzie has never liked the way she
looks-even though her best friend Mel says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online
but she's afraid to send pictures even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows
no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive
she counts almonds consumed miles logged pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted
dresses. She grows up and gets thin navigating double-edged validation from her mother her
friends her husband her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses will she
ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant hilarious and at
times shocking debut Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that
tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance and delivers a tender and
moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to
conform. As caustically funny as it is heartbreaking 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
introduces a vital new voice in fiction. WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY
FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION
FOR FICTION NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2016 BY ELLE BUSTLE AND THE GLOBE AND
MAIL NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH BY THE HUFFINGTON POST BUSTLE AND BOOKRIOT
