Binding: Paperback
Description: Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire though. A NEW England BOOK Award Winner! Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body but it's hard and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner lighter slimmer - faced straighter - haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian the first worthwhile guy to notice her everything is perfect until she learns one thing - - he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? Because it's time people did. A sensitive funny and painfully honest coming - of - age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme Fat Chance Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents our bodies our cultures and ourselves. An NPR Best Book of the Year! Named to the Tayshas Reading List A Popsugar Best New Y a Novel! A Cosmopolitan Best New Book! A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut!
Title: Fat Chance Charlie Vega
Author(s): Maldonado Crystal
Publisher: Holiday House Inc
Barcode: 9780823451319
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 1/11/2022
Category: Drama & Performing (Children's / Teenage)