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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... Iris yet , have you ? Nobody has meetings with Iris . " I found out later that Iris was riot - furious all the time . The committee achieved a salad bar , complete with sunflower seeds and three kinds of dressing . Peg was ecstatic and ...
... Iris yet , have you ? Nobody has meetings with Iris . " I found out later that Iris was riot - furious all the time . The committee achieved a salad bar , complete with sunflower seeds and three kinds of dressing . Peg was ecstatic and ...
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... Iris . Important people were coming to visit her . They hadn't come by the end of my shift , but the nurse had heard that Iris used to be a big Washington lawyer . That night when I went home , I got out the ladder and climbed up on the ...
... Iris . Important people were coming to visit her . They hadn't come by the end of my shift , but the nurse had heard that Iris used to be a big Washington lawyer . That night when I went home , I got out the ladder and climbed up on the ...
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... Iris felt triumphant . She knows I belong , she thought . Her reply was cordial . “ It's like flying . Just ... Iris isn't afraid of planes . She's not afraid of anything . " The two women lifted eyebrows at each other . “ He's wrong ...
... Iris felt triumphant . She knows I belong , she thought . Her reply was cordial . “ It's like flying . Just ... Iris isn't afraid of planes . She's not afraid of anything . " The two women lifted eyebrows at each other . “ He's wrong ...
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