| View Larger Image | Conversations with the Fat Girl | Paperbackby Liza Palmer (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | 5 Spot | | Page Count: | 319 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 13, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 274,417th |
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Product Description
Everyone seems to be getting on with their lives-except Maggie. At 27, she+s still working at the local coffee house, while her friends are getting married, having babies, and building careers. Even Olivia, Maggie+s best friend from childhood, is getting married to her doctor boyfriend. Maggie, on the other hand, lives with her dog Solo, and has no romantic prospects, save for the torch she carries for Domenic, the busboy. Though Maggie and Olivia have been best friends since their -fattie+ grade school years, Olivia+s since gone the gastric-bypass surgery route, in hopes of obtaining the elusive size two, the holy grail for fat girls everywhere. So now Olivia+s thin, blonde, and betrothed, and Maggie+s the fat bridesmaid. Ain+t life grand? In this inspiring debut novel, Maggie speaks to women everywhere who wish for just once that they could forget about their weight. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 63 reviews)
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Hilarious by M. Steed (TN, USA)  5 Stars
May 28, 2009
Not only did I relate to Maggie because I am also a big woman, I related to her in the way she spoke. The things she wrote were so true and equally hilarious! I LOVED this book and i think anyone with a good sense of humor will as well.
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Been on both sides myself.... by Alicia Riverwoods (Minneapolis, MN) 5 Stars
April 15, 2009
As a young woman who has been on both sides of the coin described in this book (morbidly obese AND a weight loss surgery patient) it plays very loudly on my heart strings. I bought this book shortly before going into the hospital to have gastric bypass surgery. I felt like the character was reading from my own head everything she sees, hears and feels through her heavy-set point of view. After having gastric bypass and loosing well over 100lbs I am definitely not the same person as her vain friend who lost substantial weight from the same surgery is, but I can most definitely relate to thoughts, emotions and points of view from both sides.
I thought this was a great book and I would recommend it to anyone with any amount of weight to loose, friends and family of those who may be heavier, and most definitely parents of a heavy teen. It will light things for you in a whole different perspective.
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Good book, bad ending. by Ambrosia Jefferson (MN, USA)  3 Stars
April 04, 2009
Liz Palmer has written a book that a lot of people can identify with. And not just the chubbier set either; I feel that we all have body issues. We all have things that make us self conscious and we see in a harder light than others and we have that internal monologue about. I know I do! Maggie is an inspirational character; she admits her flaws and admits that her plans to fix he flaws are also often flawed.
While I enjoyed the story of Maggie, and how she goes through her own self discovery. The painful finding out of just what her friendship with her now very skinny friend Olivia has come down to. The book does have some problems. I will state again that over all I did truly enjoy the story, it as heartfelt and funny at times and sad in other points.
That said some things can not be overlooked. The fact that Maggie really should have realized much earlier that her friend Olivia was not what she seemed is one of them. The other huge issue I have with this book is that the ending really is a non ending. You feel like your left hanging and going, "Now what?" when you finish it. I don't think all books wrap up in a nice little package with a bow but they should wrap up. Even if you're not getting a happy ending you need a proper ending.
There is some romance in the book but it is mostly light. And I personally feel even in that you are left hanging. There is a good solid set of characters, and the development of them is very good. So over all if you like chic lit and like something witty check this book out. Just be warned that it doesn't have a true ending.
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I really enjoyed this book by M. Mcguire 5 Stars
January 02, 2009
Just a great read. I will be sure to read other titles from this author.
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Angieville: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FAT GIRL by Angela Thompson (Rocky Mountains) 3 Stars
November 02, 2008
After reading (and loving) Liza Palmer's second book, Seeing Me Naked, I had high expectations for her first novel. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FAT GIRL was not a disappointment. It follows lifelong "fat girl" Maggie who works at a coffee shop even though she has a masters degree in art restoration. Maggie is also hopelessly in love with Domenic--a 28 year old coffee shop busboy who moonlights as a doll maker. But she's afraid to let him get too close for fear he will see her "Area" and lose what interest he seems to have.
At the same time, Maggie's best friend and former fellow fat girl in crime, Olivia, is getting married. One gastric bypass surgery later, Olivia is now a size 2. As they plan the wedding together, Maggie begins to realize that after dropping all those dress sizes there is very little of her formerly witty and fun loving best friend left. As opposed to Elisabeth from Seeing Me Naked, Maggie has a wonderfully supportive family around when she needs them. Bit by painful bit, they help her work through her fears about her body, her self worth, Domenic, and what has happened to her best friend.
I laughed several times while reading this book, though not quite as explosively as while reading Seeing Me Naked. Maggie is easy to like. We all know what it's like to surround ourselves with safe people and a safe place to stay at a time when we're afraid of what life's gonna hand us and of how we will or will not deal with it. What's great about this book is the conversational tone the author takes with her characters, as referenced in the title. Sections in which Maggie seriously questions her life and the Way Things Are flow seamlessly out of scenes of hilarity and heartbreak, including one particularly memorable scene in which Domenic drives a rather the worse for wear Maggie home from a friend's party. As she brokenly tries to tell him how she feels, the conversation devolves into the "In Your Eyes" scene from Say Anything. Palmer knows how to nail a scene and the closing one is great. The only sad thing being that it's over.
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