![]() To me it felt like a novel, rather than a short story collection, though the occasional shift in point-of-view, from the first person to the third person, and unexplained leaps in time are a little jarring. ![]() I use the word “chapters” loosely, because each is essentially a self-contained short story, but read together they form a cohesive whole. ![]() It’s wry and funny, but also unsettling, for not only does Awad turn her sharp, perceptive eye towards the all-consuming issue of weight control, she also focuses on how this affects relationships between mothers and daughters, female friends, colleagues, sexual partners and the people we marry.Īnd as the title might suggest, the book has 13 chapters. It mines a dark psychological seam of people who have an unhealthy relationship with food. Mona Awad’s novel, 1 3 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl - which has been shortlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize - is cut from the same cloth. It was an illuminating (and exquisitely written) look at what it is like to be constantly at war with your body. Fiction – Kindle edition Penguin 214 pages 2016.Įarlier this year I read an extraordinary collection of essays called Small Acts of Disappearance by Australian writer Fiona Wright about her battle with an eating disorder. ![]()
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