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Dietland
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780544704831
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 24 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A Best Book of the Year: Entertainment Weekly - Bustle - Women's National Book Association - Kirkus Reviews - BookPage - LitReactor
Dietland completely blew me away. It's audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking and I want to grab women on the street and shake them until they promise to read it--and also buy copies for their daughters. --Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good In Bed and In Her Shoes,
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. But when a mysterious woman in colorful tights and combat boots begins following her, Plum falls down a rabbit hole into the world of Calliope House -- an underground community of women who reject society's rules -- and is forced to confront the real costs of becoming beautiful. At the same time, a guerilla group begins terrorizing a world that mistreats women, and Plum becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive.
A giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin (Entertainment Weekly), Dietland takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight-loss obsession -- with fists flying.
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