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Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

$5.00

Crystal Maldonado

1 in stock

SKU: CG913 Book Condition: Very Good Categories: ,

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire,though. A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER! 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 bodybut it’s hardand 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: thinnerlighterslimmer-facedstraighter-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 Brianthe first worthwhile guy to notice hereverything 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 sensitivefunnyand painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chismeFat ChanceCharlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parentsour bodiesour culturesand ourselves. An NPR Best Book of the Year! Named to the TAYSHAS Reading List A POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel! A Cosmopolitan Best New Book! A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut!

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

$5.00

1 in stock

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