Does My Body Offend You? (2022) by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt is a unique, timely story told from the alternating perspectives of two teen girls from different backgrounds, who meet when they are both new to their suburban Florida high school. Malena has just moved to be near extended family from Puerto Rico afterContinue reading “Does My Body Offend You?”
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The Cherry Robbers
I highly anticipated reading The Cherry Robbers (publishing today, May 17, 2022) by Sarai Walker, author of Dietland, and I was not disappointed. Walker’s second book is different in tone and subject matter, but it is just as transgressive as Dietland was. There are two storylines: The first is set in the very recent pastContinue reading “The Cherry Robbers”
Reading While Fat 