Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.
Harder when your w.
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.
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.
So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? Because it\'s time people did.
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.
Totally dope.
Athletic.
Popular.
Slim.
But there\'s one person who\'s always in Charlie\'s corner: her best friend Amelia.
Be quieter.
Be whiter.
Be smaller.
The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired.
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.
Especially her mom.
People sometimes have a problem with that last one.
Fat.
Ambitious.
Artistic.
Funny.
Smart.
Charlie Vega is a lot of things.
Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.
A sensitive, funny, and painful 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.
So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? Because it\'s time people did.
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.
Totally dope.
Athletic.
Popular.
Slim.
But there\'s one person who\'s always in Charlie\'s corner: her best friend Amelia.
Be quieter.
Be whiter.
Be smaller.
The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired.
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.
Especially her mom.
People sometimes have a problem with that last one.
Fat.
Ambitious.
Artistic.
Funny.
Smart.
Charlie Vega is a lot of things.
Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard
