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Winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Literary Fiction
“Heavy yet rewarding, Maharaj's novel is a reminder that resilience takes many forms — and that most exceed our naming.” — Kirkus Reviews
A heartrending novel about one man’s search for meaning in a difficult life
A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favored brother, a husband who falls short of his
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Darkly funny and deeply resonant, this novel maps a young woman's journey from a fat adolescence to an ex-fat adulthood. Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. So she starts to lose weight. She counts calories consumed, miles logged, pounds lost, raw almonds eaten - she even undertakes an epic battle with a von Furstenberg. But no matter how much weight she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious,...
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