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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... face . “ Okay , I'll see what I can do . " My stomach dropped . " You sure you're not too tired ? " I wanted the attention , but I also liked being able to drop my hair around my face . It did something powerful for me , even if I wasn ...
... face . “ Okay , I'll see what I can do . " My stomach dropped . " You sure you're not too tired ? " I wanted the attention , but I also liked being able to drop my hair around my face . It did something powerful for me , even if I wasn ...
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... face was flushed with beer and sun . Her knees kept bumping mine under the table . She dug a quarter out of her pocket to play a Blondie song on the table jukebox . I poured her another beer . She emptied the rocks out of her pockets ...
... face was flushed with beer and sun . Her knees kept bumping mine under the table . She dug a quarter out of her pocket to play a Blondie song on the table jukebox . I poured her another beer . She emptied the rocks out of her pockets ...
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... faces . One woman in a town car with a pink sweater and a bald driver- husband was in the act of turning to speak with her backseat children , and our eyes met . Her face seemed to startle then soften as we looked at each other , then ...
... faces . One woman in a town car with a pink sweater and a bald driver- husband was in the act of turning to speak with her backseat children , and our eyes met . Her face seemed to startle then soften as we looked at each other , then ...
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