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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... hands , filling it in so the water wouldn't stop there . I finished the trench . When I looked through the mist at ... hand , and we both lost our footing , so we were sit- ting there laughing and spitting dirt and water when the late ...
... hands , filling it in so the water wouldn't stop there . I finished the trench . When I looked through the mist at ... hand , and we both lost our footing , so we were sit- ting there laughing and spitting dirt and water when the late ...
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... hand on the door . " Strange weather we're having . There was a lot of thunder this morning . Hear it ? " I hoped he wouldn't notice that Felice had slipped her hand onto my seat so that it rested against the side of my leg as she ...
... hand on the door . " Strange weather we're having . There was a lot of thunder this morning . Hear it ? " I hoped he wouldn't notice that Felice had slipped her hand onto my seat so that it rested against the side of my leg as she ...
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... hand . They both looked alarmed and slightly fascinated when they saw Peg , but she leaned way out to hand them a flyer . I had slipped mine into my back pocket . The woman took the little boy to the sink and started scrubbing his hands ...
... hand . They both looked alarmed and slightly fascinated when they saw Peg , but she leaned way out to hand them a flyer . I had slipped mine into my back pocket . The woman took the little boy to the sink and started scrubbing his hands ...
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