Fatropolis
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- USD 4.99
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- USD 4.99
Descripción editorial
The alternative history, paranormal romantic adventure of a young fat woman with low self-esteem who falls into another world where fat people lead happy, normal, guilt-free lives. Most of her life Jenny has felt she's not good enough, not attractive enough, because she's fat. Then one day she stumbles through a portal between a world that values thinness and one that values roundness. Sometimes falling can wake you up. "I'd like to live in Tracey Thompson's Fatropolis," says Lynne Murray, author of the Josephine Fuller mystery series and other works. "The food is delightful, potential boyfriends and girlfriends are properly appreciative of the abundant figure, and all the accommodations are scaled to fit large bodies! Thompson's heroine Jenny accidentally finds this alternate Manhattan where the population hasn't swallowed the poison pill of fat hatred....Jenny's journey takes us on a path many of us have traveled to accept our bodies and enjoy our lives just as we are."
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When trying on dresses in Bountiful Britches, a plus-size specialty store, lonely, insecure Jenny Crandell inadvertently falls through an interdimensional portal into Fatropolis, a speciously constructed alternate version of New York City that worships fatness instead of thinness. Jenny uncovers secrets about the different dimensions that strain the reader's suspension of belief while engaging in a tepid, clich d love triangle. She slowly learns to love herself and appreciate big bodies though of course her love interests Argus Lippencott, a "tall and gorgeous" health food store clerk "with rock hard muscles," and interdimensional refugee Leland O'Flannigan are conventionally handsome by New York standards and far too skinny for Fatropolis. Stilted dialogue, shallow world-building, an illogical and meandering plot, and threadbare characters serve as little more than vessels for the author's message, which is too often undermined by the book's own superficiality and obsession with thinness.
