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A review by allzen_nochill
My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir by Rae Earl
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
3.5
Since this is pulled directly from a diary, it's hard to pass any moral judgments on it - this is the true story of a fat teenage girl in 1989, dealing with the world as it was then & all of the crap our society was. Yes, there's internalized fatphobia that goes unexamined. Yes, there's internalized misogyny. Yes, Rae should have definitely been seeing a regular therapist instead of just getting spat out from her hospice stint. But it's also bitingly funny and sweet and real. That's what we asked it to be.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Mental illness
Minor: Self harm and Death