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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Swimming with the Fat Ladies: FAT: the Best or Richest Part

Swimming with the Fat Ladies: FAT: the Best or Richest Part

Theiss, Debbie

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639804307
ISBN13: 9781639804306
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 2 2023
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Don't let its title, Swimming with the Fat Ladies, mislead you. Penned by Debbie Theiss, whose clever tone mirrors humorist Erma Bombeck's, this chapbook shares humor, ironies, fears, and joys of becoming a female senior citizen. In contrast to fat's negative image, Theiss shows it as a positive adjective. In her Foreword, she defines the term as the best or richest part; superfluity; substantial and impressive, . . . (The Foreword also details a hilarious scene of a swimsuit fitting.) Then, Theiss dances the reader through poems to which most seniors can relate, such as: Hip Replacement, Office Visit (with a mammogram), Family Heirloom, wherein she must wrestle the jam-packed drawer open, and I Refuse to Go Digital (about battles with the scale). Along with sharing funny aspects of aging this chapbook still exposes its challenges. Whether thin or not, female septuagenarians would do well by reading it.

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