Manstealing for Fat Girls

This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely not part of the in crowd: one's fat, one's a dyke, and one is missing a breast. Nicknamed "Lezzylard" by her classmates, Angie is seduced by the prettiest girl in school, an anorexic who just wants to make imaginary grocery lists. Inez, the school's pot dealer, can't shoplift because security guards are mesmerized by her single enormous breast. Shelby and Angie can't be together, because then everyone will think Angie's only a dyke because she's too fat to get a guy. Manstealing for Fat Girls explodes the locus where patriarchal and class violence intersect, while embracing all that is magical -- and dangerous -- about adolescence. Set in a working class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s, the book is replete with music and pop culture references of the era, but the bullying, lunch table treachery, and desperate desire to fit in ring true for every generation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 10/01/2005
ISBN: 9781933368023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.06h x 4.98w x 0.80d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/15/2005 pg. 31
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 89
Booklist 09/15/2005 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2005 pg. 753
School Library Journal 10/01/2006 pg. 148