Fat Girl Dances with RocksIt's the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home, and meets people with bodies and abilities as various as the textures of the rocks her friend Felice collects. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a novel about the many shapes of beauty: the fold of a belly, the green swelling of seedlings, the sharp edges of granite, obsidian, and flint. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a coming of age story. It is a coming out story, and for Char, it is a story of coming into her own body - all the way to the edges of her skin. |
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... Doritos and our Scotch Buy beer . I felt exhila- rated as the electric doors slid open in front of us . We had gotten away with something . I bumped Felice with my hip . She bounced off , right into the drug store . " Shit . " I was not ...
... Doritos and our Scotch Buy beer . I felt exhila- rated as the electric doors slid open in front of us . We had gotten away with something . I bumped Felice with my hip . She bounced off , right into the drug store . " Shit . " I was not ...
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... Doritos as we flipped through the magazines . We got vaguely drunk as it got dark . We each had to get home in time to eat supper with the folks , but Felice wanted to climb some rocks first . She was interested in geology . I didn't ...
... Doritos as we flipped through the magazines . We got vaguely drunk as it got dark . We each had to get home in time to eat supper with the folks , but Felice wanted to climb some rocks first . She was interested in geology . I didn't ...
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... Doritos , and Felice pointed across the flat , sagebrush plain to a breast - shaped peak all alone against the horizon . " That's got to be a volcano , " she said . " I think these fields are pumice . That's why not much grows here ...
... Doritos , and Felice pointed across the flat , sagebrush plain to a breast - shaped peak all alone against the horizon . " That's got to be a volcano , " she said . " I think these fields are pumice . That's why not much grows here ...
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