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nickabockaglory 's review for:
Piglet
by Lottie Hazell
This book was uncomfortable. It wasn't bad, but it made me feel a lot of difficult feelings.
As a fat person, it felt a little traumatic and I reckon if I wasn't in a good place with my own body and fatness, this book may have broken me.
It also makes me feel uncomfortable that this was not written by a fat person. We get such low representation across all forms of media and especially one like Piglet because it deals with a lot of complex feelings around her body, size, perceptions of others, relationships with food, I would have liked it to be written by someone who has deep knowledge of what that feels like.
Living as a fat person can be hard, especially when you haven't done the work of body acceptance (neutrality or positivity) so this made me truly sad for Piglet. I wanted her to have better. I wanted to take her for tea and give her a motivational speech about how her worth is not tied to her size.
I am pleased thatshe left the wedding. She deserves so much more and I'm glad she didn't just let it slide and accept that the betrayal is all she's worth.
All in, I think it was well-written and I did want to keep reading, but I'm not sure if I'd say i enjoyed reading it.
Listened at 1.5x speed on Libby app through my local library.
As a fat person, it felt a little traumatic and I reckon if I wasn't in a good place with my own body and fatness, this book may have broken me.
It also makes me feel uncomfortable that this was not written by a fat person. We get such low representation across all forms of media and especially one like Piglet because it deals with a lot of complex feelings around her body, size, perceptions of others, relationships with food, I would have liked it to be written by someone who has deep knowledge of what that feels like.
Living as a fat person can be hard, especially when you haven't done the work of body acceptance (neutrality or positivity) so this made me truly sad for Piglet. I wanted her to have better. I wanted to take her for tea and give her a motivational speech about how her worth is not tied to her size.
I am pleased that
All in, I think it was well-written and I did want to keep reading, but I'm not sure if I'd say i enjoyed reading it.
Listened at 1.5x speed on Libby app through my local library.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity
Moderate: Pregnancy