Fat: A Love Story

Rita Formica is fat. A fat baby, a fat child, and now a fat teenager, Rita has come to believe that her looks will never change. Her friend Nicole thinks that she looks like a fat spy. Her long-suffering parents have sent her to every diet counselor and psychologist on Long Island. But Rita, the extrovert, the clown, continues to eat — working meanwhile for an eccentric gentleman named Arnold Bromberg who runs a cheesecake business. Then Rita meets the gorgeous athlete Robert Swann, and her appetite fades. In love with Robert at first sight, she is determined to become thin for his sake and to change her image forever. The complications that result from this decision have an incredible effect on everyone: Rita, Robert, Nicole, and even the mysterious Mr. Bromberg. But when Nicole sets out to help Rita seduce Robert, real trouble begins.

• Author
• Barbara Wersba

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 160

• Publisher
• Dell Laurel Leaf

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780440205371

• Genres
• fiction, teen

• Release date
• 1987