An edition of Moose (2008)

Moose

a memoir of fat camp

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An edition of Moose (2008)

Moose

a memoir of fat camp

First Edition
  • 3.0 (2 ratings) ·
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  • 2 Have read

With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescenceWhile she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds." Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and embarrassment comes flooding back. Though she is determined to gain the weight for the health of her babies—even if it means she'll "weigh more than a Honda"—she can only express her deep fear by telling her doctor simply, "I used to be fat."Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. It was a problem at school, where the boys called her "Moose," and it was a problem at home, where her father reminded her, "No one likes fat girls." After many frustrating sessions with a nutritionist known as the fat doctor of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, Klein's parents enrolled her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to return to school thin and popular, without her "lard arms" and "puckered ham," Stephanie embarked on a memorable journey that would shape more than just her body. It would shape her life.In the ever-shifting terrain between fat and thin, adulthood and childhood, cellulite and starvation, Klein shares the cutting details of what it truly feels like to be an overweight child, from the stinging taunts of classmates, to the off-color remarks of her own father, to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body. Calling upon her childhood diary entries, Klein reveals her deepest thoughts and feelings from that turbulent, hopeful time, baring her soul and making her heartache palpable.Whether Klein is describing her life as a chubby adolescent camper—getting weighed on a meat scale, petting past curfew, and "chunky dunking" in the lake—or what it's like now as a fit mother, having one-sided conversations with her newborn twins about the therapy they'll one day need, this hilarious yet grippingly vulnerable book will remind you what it was like to feel like an outsider, to desperately seek the right outfit, the right slang, the best comeback, or whatever that unattainable something was that would finally make you fit in.

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Pages
310

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Moose
2008, HarperCollins
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Moose: a memoir of fat camp
2008 May 27, HarperCollins, William Morrow
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
618.92/3980092, B
Library of Congress
RJ399.C6 K538 2008, RJ399.C6K538 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18299131M
Internet Archive
moosememoiroffat00klei
ISBN 13
9780060843298
LCCN
2008002728
OCLC/WorldCat
191090439
Google
pi_3oC5Rio4C
Library Thing
6870281
Goodreads
467690

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