false 467690 2 With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular <i>Straight Up and Dirty</i> offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescence. While she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds." Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and embarrassment comes flooding back. Though she is determined to gain the weight for the health of her babies, even if it means she'll "weigh more than a Honda" she can only express her deep fear by telling her doctor simply, "I used to be fat." Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. It was a problem at school, where the boys called her "Moose," and it was a problem at home, where her father reminded her, "No one likes fat girls." After many frustrating sessions with a nutritionist known as the fat doctor of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, Klein's parents enrolled her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to return to school thin and popular, without her "lard arms" and "puckered ham," Stephanie embarked on a memorable journey that would shape more than just her body. It would shape her life. In the ever-shifting terrain between fat and thin, adulthood and childhood, cellulite and starvation, Klein shares the cutting details of what it truly feels like to be an overweight child, from the stinging taunts of classmates, to the off-color remarks of her own father, to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body. Calling upon her childhood diary entries, Klein reveals her deepest thoughts and feelings from that turbulent, hopeful time, baring her soul and making her heartache palpable. Whether Klein is describing her life as a chubby adolescent camper, getting weighed on a meat scale, petting past curfew, and "chunky dunking" in the lake or what it's like now as a fit mother, having one-sided conversations with her newborn twins about the therapy they'll one day need, this hilarious yet grippingly vulnerable book will remind you what it was like to feel like an outsider, to desperately seek the right outfit, the right slang, the best comeback, or whatever that unattainable something was that would finally make you fit in. 456043 1 5 2008 Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp total:680|5:74|4:189|3:286|2:106|1:25| 680 2221 1718 170 4 4 false false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 10:07:51 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 08:45:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Jun 11 06:04:34 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 15:43:30 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 20:34:22 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 19:30:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 17:36:36 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 18:04:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 27 10:38:57 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 16:22:39 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 10:38:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 11:47:28 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 07:14:40 -0700 2008
There are few things in life as embarassing as being the fat kid. Everyone sees the class pictures, the lonely lunches and the sweat stained t-shirts in gym class. However, though as zoftig as she may be at ho...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:51:59 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 07:03:57 -0700 2008
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As one who was always a little chubby, I was always curious as to what went on at those fat camps. I had read Jelly Belly as a child, and wondered how it measured up. Instead of kids finding ways to sneak food all the time, the majority of kids at the fat ca...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 12:00:34 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 14:43:36 -0700 2008
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