13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: From the author of TikTok phenomenon BUNNY

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'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY. 'Echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman' IRISH TIMES. Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl In this darkly funny, deeply resonant novel, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. 'Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINY. 'Honest, searing and necessary' ELLE.

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In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl * Irish Times *
Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour -- Katherine Heiny
[A] beautiful, necessary book -- Roxane Gay
Honest, searing, and necessary... 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl peels back the curtain on the struggles of entering womanhood from body image, to relationships, to merely navigating the oh-so-cruel world * Elle *
Awad deftly captures the many indignities that she that women experience around food and weight... Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning * Washington Post *
Shocking, sad, important and tender; this is a powerful rollercoaster of a read * Daily Mail *
[A] clever debut... The themes may be sobering but Awad examines them with a deliciously wry humour * Mail on Sunday *

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Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the U.S. on and off since 2003. A graduate of York University in Toronto, her debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, won the 2016 Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize. She is currently a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Denver. Her second novel, Bunny, is also published by Head of Zeus.