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A review by imalahakhund
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
Previously known for her advocacy for Adnan Syed's case and appearance on the podcast Serial and HBO documentary on the case, Rabia Chaudry, here in her memoir Fatty Fatty, Boom Boom is talking about her life as a 2nd generation Pakistani American woman, her relationship with food especially her love for the Pakistani cuisine, her struggle with weight gain and fat shaming in the desi community and her stories about her family.
Fast paced, funny and so so much relatable that it almost felt like I wasn't reading but sitting in drawing room listening to an auntie or khala recalling interesting tales about family around afternoon chai time. Some of the descriptions and details are so real and relatable that I could see the same things happening in my own family. Rabia truly is a skilled writer, using humor and storytelling as a way of sharing her life long struggle with weight gain, her coke addiction in college and then weight loss by different methods from excercise and diet to eating and throwing up, and over salting her food to bariatric surgery and then plastic surgery.
P.S. While reading the book I came across the knowledge that Rabia Chaudry has also been involved in an Anti BDS, Pro Israel, Muslim Leadership Initiative or MLI, involved in faithwashing the Israeli occupation. The book doesn't mention really anything about it but given the current climate I felt like it was right to mention it.
Fast paced, funny and so so much relatable that it almost felt like I wasn't reading but sitting in drawing room listening to an auntie or khala recalling interesting tales about family around afternoon chai time. Some of the descriptions and details are so real and relatable that I could see the same things happening in my own family. Rabia truly is a skilled writer, using humor and storytelling as a way of sharing her life long struggle with weight gain, her coke addiction in college and then weight loss by different methods from excercise and diet to eating and throwing up, and over salting her food to bariatric surgery and then plastic surgery.
P.S. While reading the book I came across the knowledge that Rabia Chaudry has also been involved in an Anti BDS, Pro Israel, Muslim Leadership Initiative or MLI, involved in faithwashing the Israeli occupation. The book doesn't mention really anything about it but given the current climate I felt like it was right to mention it.