![]() She knows the von Furstenberg is a separate entity, that it and I will never be one.įrom 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad ©2016. She saw me out of the corner of her exquisitely lined eye going to the back of the store to retrieve it between the frigid Eileen Fishers and the smug Max Azrias and she disapproves. ![]() When she speaks, I hear her disdain, bright as a bell. ![]() Its main character, Lizzie, grapples with body. 13 WAYS won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Awad’s satiric edge is on display in her debut novel in stories, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Penguin Books: 224 pp., 16 paper). I brace myself for the sound of her voice, all of my nerve endings like cats ready to pounce. Mona Awad is the author of BUNNY, ALLS WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL. ![]() Three light raps on the door with her opal-encrusted knuckles. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad 2.7 (3) Paperback 17.00 Paperback 17.00 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 15. I can hear the slow-approaching clicks of her heels. This is the moment she always chooses to knock on the door. The fabric's stretched tight over my face so I can't see and it's blocking my air supply but I'm doing my best to breathe through twill. ![]() I've thrown it over my head and I'm attempting to wedge my arms through the armholes even though it's got my shoulders and rib cage in a vise grip. Despite my better judgment, I'm in the fitting room wrestling with the von Furstenberg again. ![]()
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