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Fat Girl Dances with Rocks

It's the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home, and meets people with bodies and abilities as various as the textures of the rocks her friend Felice collects. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a novel about the many shapes of beauty: the fold of a belly, the green swelling of seedlings, the sharp edges of granite, obsidian, and flint. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a coming of age story. It is a coming out story, and for Char, it is a story of coming into her own body — all the way to the edges of her skin.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 179
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781883523022
  • Genres
  • fiction, lgbt, fat, feminism, queer
  • Release date
  • 1994