Dietland

Description:

Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. But when a mysterious woman in colorful tights and combat boots begins following her, Plum falls down a rabbit hole into the world of Calliope House — an underground community of women who reject society’s rules — and is forced to confront the real costs of becoming “beautiful.” At the same time, a guerilla group begins terrorizing a world that mistreats women, and Plum becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive.

subjects: Obesity,  Fiction,  Surgery,  Feminists,  Fiction, general,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Contemporary Women,  FICTION / General,  Guerrillas,  Body image,  Self-esteem in women,  Self-acceptance in women,  Discrimination against overweight persons,  Fat-acceptance movement,  Emotions,  Friendship,  Coming of age,  Literary,  Contemporary Women,  General