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020			_a9781423388296
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040			_aAU@ _beng _cAU@ _dNz
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100	1		_926999 _aSteel, Danielle, _d1948- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBig girl : _ba novel / _cDanielle Steel.
260			_aLondon : _bBantam, _c2010.
300			_a323 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_a 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...
650		0	_96354 _aYoung women _vFiction.
650		0	_98107 _aOverweight women _vFiction.
650		0	_97017 _aSelf-realization in women _vFiction.
650		0	_91046 _aParent and child _vFiction.
655		4	_9185368 _aDomestic fiction.
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