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Mona Awad's New Novel, '13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl'

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"13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl" tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman obsessed with the way she looks and how much she weighs.

"'Fat girl' is not so much a problem of flesh," says novelist Mona Awad, "it's more of a state of mind that you can inhabit long after any transformations you make to your body."

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Mona Awad, novelist. She tweets @monaawadauthor.

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Kirkus Review: 13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl

  • "A young woman navigates uneasy relationships with herself, her weight, and the world in Awad’s painfully raw — and bitingly funny — debut."

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This segment aired on March 7, 2016.

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