Fat Angie - E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Fat Angie

By E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

  • Release Date: 2013-03-12
  • Genre: Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 13 Ratings

Description

Winner of a 2014 Stonewall Book Award! Her sister was captured in Iraq, she’s the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything? Angie is broken — by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Hiding under a mountain of junk food hasn’t kept the pain (or the shouts of "crazy mad cow!") away. Having failed to kill herself — in front of a gym full of kids — she’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, the kind of girl who doesn’t exist in Dryfalls, Ohio. A girl who is one hundred and ninety-nine percent wow! A girl who never sees her as Fat Angie, and who knows too well that the package doesn’t always match what’s inside. With an offbeat sensibility, mean girls to rival a horror classic, and characters both outrageous and touching, this darkly comic anti-romantic romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful fiction.

Reviews

  • great for teens especially if they’re struggling

    3
    By Toni FGMAMTC
    This is a good book for teens because it deals with a lot of life issues: bullying, growing up, sexual orientation, war, obesity, depression, cutting, suicide, parental neglect, death, family issues, basically everything that affects self-worth especially during the difficult time of the teen years. Sadly I didn't connect with it as much probably because I'm old.
  • Fave

    5
    By Myte7
    Ever

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