Skinny: A Novel (P.S.)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0062020366 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, April 2011
While working at a summer camp for overweight children, Gray Lachmann, escaping from the grief of her father's death, must deal with her own issues when she makes a shocking discovery that changes everything she ever knew about her father.
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“Skinnywill be my go-to recommendation all year for anyone who wants smart, endearing,beautifully written women's fiction." —Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of TheOne That I Want and Time of My Life"Spechler…transcends melodrama and clichewith striking sensitivity and delicate touch." —Boston GlobeTo escape thegrief she feels following her father’s death, twenty-six year old Brooklynite Gray Lachmann becomesa counselor at a summer camp for overweight children, where she discovers shehas her own demons to battle both emotionally and physically. In Skinny, the ambitious, accomplished, anddarkly humorous second novel fromreader-favorite Diana Spechler—author of Who ByFire and acontributor to Rumpus Women Volume 1—a vividly realized cast of characters mustcome to terms with eating disorders, buried secrets, and the trials of growingup.
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