Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard... Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.
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.
RECOMMENDED FOR: High School
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
Publisher: Holiday House
Publish Date: Hardcover: February 02, 2021 / Paperback: January 11, 2022
Pages: English Version - 352 / Spanish Version - 368
Dimensions: Hardcover: 5.6 X 8.3 X 1.3 inches | 0.92 pounds / Paperback: 6.0 X 8.7 X 1.1 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language: English or Spanish
Type: Hardcover or Paperback
Condition: NEW