Fat Girl: A True Story

For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F. K.Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore's deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.

?Frank, often funny?intelligent and entertaining.?

?Vick Boughton, People (four out of four stars)

?Moore's unflinching memoir sets a new standard for literature about women and their bodies. Grade: A.?

?Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly (editor's choice)

?Searingly honest without affectation . . . Moore emerged fromher hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.?

?Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The Seattle Times

?Stark . . . lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart.?

?Peg Tyre, Newsweek

?God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest.?

?Anne Lamott

?Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane.?

?David Sedaris

?A slap-in-the-face of a book?courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny.?

?Augusten Burroughs

"Poignant, deeply felt, remarkably funny, Moore's memoir will resonate with anyone who's ever lived with self-hatred." Booklist

"A book of painful and ferocious eloquence." Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States

"Editor's Choice: Grade A. Moore's unflinching and disturbing memoir sets a new standard for literature about women and their bodies...[Moore] writes with terrifying, icy candor...[A] searing and saddening experience, one you will not easily forget." Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly

"Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page of this memoir, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart with a portrait of the artist as a young pariah....[U]nflinchingly stark, yet sometimes lyrical and often funny." Peg Tyre, Newsweek

"Frank, often funny — intelligent and entertaining." Vick Boughton, People

"Searingly honest without affectation...Moore emerged from her hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera." Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The Seattle Times

"God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest." Anne Lamott

"Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane." David Sedaris

"A slap-in-the-face of a book — courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny." Augusten Burroughs

A nonfiction She's Come Undone, Fat Girl is a powerfully honest, compulsively readable memoir of obsession with food, and with one's body, penned by a Guggenheim and NEA award-winning writer.

A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly)
For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.
Searingly honest without affectation Moore emerged from her hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera. The Seattle Times
Frank, often funny intelligent and entertaining. People (starred review)
God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest. Anne Lamott
Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane. David Sedaris
Stark lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart. Newsweek
A slap-in-the-face of a book courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny. Augusten Burroughs"

For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore’s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.

Judith Moore, recipient of two National Endowments for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship, is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Never Eat Your Heart Out, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Moore is the books editor and senior editor for the San Diego Reader and lives in Berkeley, California.