In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Irish Times
Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour
Katherine Heiny [A] beautiful, necessary book
Roxane Gay Honest, searing, ... Read moreand necessary... 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl peels back the curtain on the struggles of entering womanhood from body image, to relationships, to merely navigating the oh-so-cruel world
Elle
Awad deftly captures the many indignities that she – that women – experience around food and weight... Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning
Washington Post
Shocking, sad, important and tender; this is a powerful rollercoaster of a read
Daily Mail
[A] clever debut... The themes may be sobering but Awad examines them with a deliciously wry humour
Mail on Sunday
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