Fat People edition by Bill Schubart Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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Fat People adds to our understanding of how easily food can overwhelm a life. The fourteen stories Schubart tells are by turns poignant and evocative. They touch on all facets of obesity - addictive behavior, prejudice, how food comes to rule a life and the intimate psychological development of people for whom food becomes both companionship and family. The best fiction not only entertains, it touches a readers heart. Readers will come to feel that they are not alone in how they feel.
Fat People edition by Bill Schubart Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
As a person halfway through her own weight-loss journey, I was curious about this book and prepared to be disturbed. I did not expect the insightful sensitivity of the author toward his characters. There is no moralizing here, and neither fear nor favor. Schubart knows the experience of being "fat" and communicates it with breathtaking clarity and honesty. I cannot believe he isn't better-known. These stories will stay with you.Product details
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Fat People edition by Bill Schubart Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
I couldn't stop reading this book. This doesn't happen to me very often. The stories are funny and incisive and heartbreaking and true.
Sometimes with great writing you feel like you're sitting with the author as the stories are coming out--that somehow the writing is happening in the moment of the reading. That's how I felt reading this book. I kept sucking in my breath....
Thank you.
Erica
This is not light reading. In Bill Schubart's unsparing but compassionate stories, the world of people "of girth," opens up to the rest of us the strain on the joints imposed by great weight; the beckoning, dreaded aroma of cinnamon buns and cheap pizza in an airport concourse (can you keep walking and get past that counter?); the rank odor wafting off a shy teenager in a boarding school because he's too ashamed to shower with the other boys. The loneliness and isolation; the obsessions. And every once in a while, a sweet small victory.
At times you may find yourself a reluctant reader but stay with it. You won't find this perspective anywhere else.
Schubart is a brave man. He takes on a topic nearly untouched by a country that perpetually ranks in the top ten of "Obese Countries" whilst spending 60 billion on the weight loss market (2014). What the USA knows how to talk about is getting thin. What we don't know how to talk about is being fat. Schubart does. He does so candidly, encapsulating the raw emotions that come from from being fat in a fat-phobic nation. This book is one of a kind. Many of the short stories are tragic; much of his prose is witty ("I have also begun doing yoga. At first it felt like trying to do origami with a boneless pork roast..." The book is important. If you identify as Schubart does, "of girth," you may hear an echo of your own suffering. The feeling is common, but too frequently the narrative is silenced by shame. This is why I call Schubart brave. If you have never experienced body shame, you too should read this. It is important to understand the effects of fatphobia. Besides, Schubart's prose is beyond captivating. It feels first hand. I couldn't put it down.
Very rarely do I find reading such a personal experience as I did when reading this book.
Thanks to the author.
Read it.
Wonderfully told stories of the many feelings (good and bad) we associate with food. No preaching morals or peddling new diets, but instead a rare insight into the joys and agonies real people experience with food.
This little book is a gem of short stories so compelling you don't want them to end. The author writes with the ease of detail that puts you right there with all the observations, feelings and wonderment you may have about fat people or even your own relationship with food. The drama of struggles with expectations and temptations in each chapter season the characters with the complexities of what life gives you. A revealing and courageous book.
This is an amazing collection of stories. Stories full of deep understanding, poignant humor, and courageous revelation. They remind us of the complex societal and personal struggles and taboos around body, food, and love that we all confront but which fat people struggle with in so many different ways.There is great sensitivity and perspective in this collection. (Notice that in the tags list one cannot find just the word "fat" but only phrases about fat.)
Bill Schubart takes on the forbidden subject ... fat. And he takes it head-on from the jarring title to the cover image of a naked, disgruntled cherub who looks as if someone has just taken away his sweet bun. The characters of these fourteen fictional stories share enormous girths and are treated with equal measures of honesty (occasionally brutal), sympathy, and pathos. There's Baybie in her slanted trailer, Father Bob who can no longer reach his own penis,the girl on the train with the imaginary boy friend, even an aging coyote scavenging for fast food scraps. Be forewarned! The author will be taking you in places you've never been before (and maybe did not want to go). Schubart, a "man of girth," has been there, done that. What redeems these stories is the clarity and precision of the writing. Whether it's describing the compulsive creation of the perfect white bread cheese sandwich or the lingering aftertaste of a cinnamon roll Schubart's writing is as addictive as some of his characters' eating disorders. Writing this good makes any subject interesting. (Thank goodness, no recipes in this book!)
As a person halfway through her own weight-loss journey, I was curious about this book and prepared to be disturbed. I did not expect the insightful sensitivity of the author toward his characters. There is no moralizing here, and neither fear nor favor. Schubart knows the experience of being "fat" and communicates it with breathtaking clarity and honesty. I cannot believe he isn't better-known. These stories will stay with you.
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