If you like apocalyptic fiction with a feminist style, with teacher-characters and supernatural elements, I would recommend this one, despite some anti-fat bias.
Author Archives: bbwesquire
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (pub. May 30, 2023) by Rita Chang-Eppig is a thoughtful historical novel about life and piracy as experienced by one woman–Shek Yeung–based on the real-life pirate queen who commanded a confederation of pirates in the South China Sea in the early 1800s. As the novel opens, ShekContinue reading “Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea”
Weightless: Making Space for my Resilient Body and Soul
This is a great book of essays dealing with the intersectionality of anti-fatness, racism, misogyny, and chronic illness, written by an astute observer of pop culture.
Hope and Glory
Recommend if you’re interested in a family drama set in London with a Nigerian-British family and a sister who’s just come home after her father has died and her family has fallen apart.
Only This Beautiful Moment
Please read this queer YA contemporary/ historical fiction set in LA and Iran, telling the story of three generations of Iranian men, that also has fat-positive representation.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Beautifully written, full of quotable lines, Zevin has created a story about the art of making games that also deals with grief and the heartache of the world, and how to keep making art through it all.
100th Review–Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
100th Review! Comment on this post to enter a celebratory giveaway of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, a can’t-miss book for any parents who have concerns about raising their kids to survive, think for themselves, and thrive, whatever their size, in our current diet culture.
The Dark Side of the Road
Interested in a Christmastime locked-room manor house mystery with both science fiction and supernatural elements? Look no further.
One to Watch
Sigh. It could have been so much better. Great that there was a fat lead on a reality dating show. But the author reinforced anti-fat and racist stereotypes while trying to do something good. Sigh.
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
This is an OK, weight-neutral chick lit read lacking in racial representation but set in a southern town. Where are the black people?