Fat Angie
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4.5 • 13 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Winner of a 2014 Stonewall Book Award! Her sister was captured in Iraq, she’s the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything? Angie is broken — by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Hiding under a mountain of junk food hasn’t kept the pain (or the shouts of "crazy mad cow!") away. Having failed to kill herself — in front of a gym full of kids — she’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, the kind of girl who doesn’t exist in Dryfalls, Ohio. A girl who is one hundred and ninety-nine percent wow! A girl who never sees her as Fat Angie, and who knows too well that the package doesn’t always match what’s inside. With an offbeat sensibility, mean girls to rival a horror classic, and characters both outrageous and touching, this darkly comic anti-romantic romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful fiction.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
High school freshman Angie sees herself the way everyone else does, as "Fat Angie," until KC Romance, "a model kind of beauty beneath the bad-girl garb," breezes into her small, conservative Ohio town. Angie is relentlessly bullied at school, as well as belittled by her mother and adopted younger brother. Angie's heavily medicated family can barely communicate with each other, let alone face the loss and presumed death of Angie's older sister in Iraq. When Angie and KC bond first platonically, then romantically over broken homes, classic TV shows, and their respective troubled pasts, Angie gradually becomes motivated to change inside and out. Charlton-Trujillo (Feels Like Home) offers a hard-hitting third novel that swings between incredibly painful low moments and hard-won victories. The abuses Angie suffers are hard to stomach her mother can be truly cruel ("No one is ever going to love you if you stay fat," she tells Angie at one point) making the happiness the teenager is able to find, both through KC's help and her own persistence, come as a relief. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
I love
I love this book it’s one of my favorites. It explores sexuality and has a cute teen romance and talks about serious issues
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great for teens especially if they’re struggling
This is a good book for teens because it deals with a lot of life issues: bullying, growing up, sexual orientation, war, obesity, depression, cutting, suicide, parental neglect, death, family issues, basically everything that affects self-worth especially during the difficult time of the teen years.
Sadly I didn't connect with it as much probably because I'm old.