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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

34 reviews

alexisgarcia's review

reflective sad medium-paced

first off, please be careful with this book, it depicts eating disorders, fatphobia, weight loss, etc. in a very raw and unfiltered way. if you may struggle with any of these topics, i really wouldn’t recommend that you read this. put yourself first!

with that out of the way, this is inherently a very sad book. there are beautiful and mouthwatering descriptions of food, but the authors perceptions of herself and her body are utterly devastating. not every story needs a happy ending (and this one definitely doesn’t have one), but the author describing that she feels a bit better about her body because she’s not “that fat” is really disheartening. this is someone’s life experiences, so it’s hard to review/say that any of them are wrong or bad. but just keep these things in mind before reading.

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alhelton's review

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challenging emotional funny sad slow-paced

1.5

I really enjoyed the immersion of the Pakistani culture and what it was like being an immigrant. However, the book is riddled with fat-phobia, sexism, and purity culture. I kept reading hoping it improved as her life continued but it never did.

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srjennings's review against another edition

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emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

I knew of Rabia from her work on the Adnan Syed case. Getting to know her, her family, her struggles and her successes was a gift. She shared with such openness, vulnerability, and honesty.

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coxaad's review against another edition

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4.0

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samrockrocks's review against another edition

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2.0

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stephalopuff's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

Picked this one for a reading challenge around the world, Pakistan.

Unfortunately I wouldn't recommend this to *anyone*. The narrator was lovely to listen to and her stories of food and family were so descriptive, sparking vivid imagery. But it was a sad, lifelong story of anti-fatness, disordered eating, body hatred and shaming, etc. with a really defensive, unhealthy ending.

If it had been written from a more healed, neutral perspective with a focus on her family, culture and food as a fat Pakistani/Desi woman, it would've been so awesome. It could've been so good.

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laurenkimoto's review against another edition

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medium-paced

1.0

I finished this out of spite. I found this book to just be constant fat phobia and the author talking about their weight and weight loss journey. I am not a medical professional, but to me definite disorder eating habits that some may find triggering. Not what I thought this was going to be.
The one star is for the wonderful and vivid descriptions of food from Pakistan and other areas of the world.

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casira's review

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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youngblackademic98's review

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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

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msales's review against another edition

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1.5

Riddled with implicit and explicit fatphobia. The entire book details her journey with intentional weight loss. She only ever accepts herself and body once she loses weight. After getting to her “goal weight” she says “my body was waiting for me to treat it with patience, attention, and kindness” as if that’s impossible in a larger body. Would not recommend to anyone who is on a self love or body neutrality journey. Wish I would have just stopped reading once I started getting red flags.

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