It's the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home, and meets people with bodies and abilities as various as the textures of the rocks her friend Felice collects.
Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a novel about the many shapes of beauty: the fold of a belly, the green swelling of seedlings, the sharp edges of granite, obsidian, and flint. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a coming of age story. It is a coming out story, and for Char, it is a story of coming into her own body - all the way to the edges of her skin.
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Synopsis:
Char, an overweight seventeen-year-old, becomes sexually involved with her friend Felice, a would-be geologist, while learning to appreciate old age and divergent forms of beauty though her summer job in a nursing home.
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- PublisherSpinsters Ink Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1883523028
- ISBN 13 9781883523022
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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