A review by jennifermackaman
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Did not finish book.
I had to stop reading due to the extreme anti-fat bias. This type of book should not exist. The author wrote a character to be unbelievably biased and does not interrogate that bias at all. He describes feeling deep shame when looking at himself in the mirror in a fat body and the author treats this as a normal reaction. He has such extreme loathing for fat bodies and is miserable the entire time solely because of the size of his body. Fat people are able to live joy-filled and active lives. Books like this feed into the idea that fatness is worthy of shame and not acceptance or celebration. 
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