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cakt1991's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley and am voluntarily posting a review. All opinions are my own.
This is a wonderful collection of stories, highlighting the experience of being fat from a variety of different perspectives. It’s truly intersectional, exploring it in the context of different races and cultures, and also within different genres to an extent as well, highlighting each of the authors’ strengths and backgrounds. I did find some stood out more than others, like Amanda Lovelace’s whimsical and slightly comic, GoT cofee-cup-inspired “love spells and lavender lattes” or “Dupatta Diaries” by Nafiza Azad. But I liked the common theme triumph in the face of fatphobia and other forms of bigotry that ran through all the stories as a whole.
This is a wonderful collection of stories, highlighting the experience of being fat from a variety of different perspectives. It’s truly intersectional, exploring it in the context of different races and cultures, and also within different genres to an extent as well, highlighting each of the authors’ strengths and backgrounds. I did find some stood out more than others, like Amanda Lovelace’s whimsical and slightly comic, GoT cofee-cup-inspired “love spells and lavender lattes” or “Dupatta Diaries” by Nafiza Azad. But I liked the common theme triumph in the face of fatphobia and other forms of bigotry that ran through all the stories as a whole.
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