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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| Title | Fat Girl Dances with Rocks Coming of Age |
| Author | Susan Stinson |
| Publisher | Spinsters Ink, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 13, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1883523028, 9781883523022 |
| Length | 179 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Lesbian |
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