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A review by scarroll178
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Evette Dionne
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.5
A lot of poignant thoughts and statistics about what it’s like to live as a plus size person in America. I especially appreciated what she said about the importance of representation in media.
I sometimes had trouble following along with the author’s medical journey just because she went through so much. But I listened to the audiobook, so maybe that’s why. Still, I think a condense timeline with everything that happened (the fibroids, and then the heart failure, and then the medication that caused the hypertension…) would have been helpful.
I also appreciated the resources listed, like the Traveling While Plus Size Facebook group. I think it would’ve been nice if the author had added a list of resources for fat readers to use in their daily lives at the end of the book.
Overall great book, just a couple things I might have changed.
Tw for internalized fatphobia
I sometimes had trouble following along with the author’s medical journey just because she went through so much. But I listened to the audiobook, so maybe that’s why. Still, I think a condense timeline with everything that happened (the fibroids, and then the heart failure, and then the medication that caused the hypertension…) would have been helpful.
I also appreciated the resources listed, like the Traveling While Plus Size Facebook group. I think it would’ve been nice if the author had added a list of resources for fat readers to use in their daily lives at the end of the book.
Overall great book, just a couple things I might have changed.
Tw for internalized fatphobia
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault