TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steel,Danielle
TI  - Big girl: a novel 
SN  - 9780552159005
U1  - 823.92 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Bantam
KW  - Young women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Overweight women
KW  - Self-realization in women
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  -  Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter's looks. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father's belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City. Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big
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