Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Candlewick Press · Paperback · January 11, 2022
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.
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- Who it’s for
- A wry coming-of-age story about body image, culture, family, and the uneasy business of being noticed.
- Genres
- Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens, Contemporary YA Romance, Hispanic & Latino YA
- Published
- Candlewick Press, January 11, 2022
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Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. A New England Book Award Winner! Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help.
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The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing--he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? Because it's time people did. A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves. An NPR Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Children’s Book of the Year A POPSUGAR Best New Young Adult Novel A Cosmopolitan Best New Book A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut A Forbes Most Notable Young Adult Book A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee A Latinxs in Publishing Best Books of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year A Business Insider Best Young Adult Romance Book
Wry and Tender
A wry coming-of-age story about body image, culture, family, and the uneasy business of being noticed.
Come here for
- A funny, candid take on body image and family friction
- Romance complicated by questions of being truly seen
Expect
- Charlie’s smart, funny voice and plenty of chisme
- Tender, thorny questions about bodies, belonging, and first romance
Where it sits
| Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens | 56% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic & Latino YA | 41% |
| Contemporary YA Romance | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Coming of Age
- Hispanic & Latino YA
- Dating & Sex for Teens
- Authors
- Crystal Maldonado
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- January 11, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Coming of Age