Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Author(s): Crystal Maldonado
Young Adult | Body Positivity | Identity - LGBTQIA+ / Queer
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. A New England Book Award WinnerA Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the YearAn NPR 'Book We Love!'
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Holiday House, Incorporated
- : Holiday House, Incorporated
- : 0.317515
- : 31 March 2022
- : .98 Inches X 5.52 Inches X 8.2 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Crystal Maldonado
- : Paperback
- : 2204
- : English
- : 352