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Stick Figure - A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback)
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Stick Figure - A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 200
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""I wish to be the thinnest girl at school, or maybe even the
thinnest eleven-year-old on the entire planet,"" confides Lori
Gottlieb to her diary. "I mean, what are girls supposed to wish
for, other than being thin?"
For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto "You can
never be too rich or too thin" is writ large. Precocious Lori
learns her lessons well, so when she's told that "real women don't
eat dessert" and "no one could ever like a girl who has thunder
thighs," she decides to become a paragon of dieting. Soon Lori has
become the "stick figure" she's longed to resemble. But then what?
"Stick Figure" takes the reader on a gripping journey, as Lori
struggles to reclaim both her body and her spirit.
By turns painful and wry, Lori's efforts to reconcile the
conflicting messages society sends women ring as true today as when
she first recorded these impressions. "One diet book says that if
you drink three full glasses of water one hour before every meal to
fill yourself up, you'll lose a pound a day. Another book says that
once you start losing weight, everyone will ask, 'How did you do
it?' but you shouldn't tell them because it's 'your little secret.'
Then right above that part it says, "'New York Times" bestseller.'
Some secret."
With an edgy wit and keenly observant eye, "Stick Figure" delivers
an engrossing glimpse into the mind of a girl in transition to
adulthood. This raw, no-holds-barred account is a powerful
cautionary tale about the dangers of living up to society's
expectations.
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