Designated fat girl : a memoir

Summary: Joyner pens a brutally honest memoir of life as an obese woman. She didn't know what to fear more: dying, or knowing that she was causing her own death. In the end, the opts for gastric bypass surgery and so this is also a story of recovery and survival.

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ISBN: 9780762759620 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xiv, 249 pages (paperback) ; 22 cm
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Publisher: Guilford, Conn. : Skirt!, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Death via drive-thru -- Bingeing and hiding -- I'm Jennifer Joyner and I'm not on TV -- The tale of three weddings -- Vanity is a luxury I can't afford -- Work it girl, phase 10,280 -- Sex and the fat girl -- Skulls and crossbones -- Life in the (fat) mommy lane -- Last straws -- Making it up -- Shipwrecked -- Finally, the dawn.

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Joyner, Jennifer
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Overweight women United States Biography
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Location	Call Number / Copy Notes	Barcode	Shelving Location	Status	Due Date
Emmaus Public Library	616.3 JOYN (Text)	3644600181141$	Adult Nonfiction	Available	-
Dimmick Main Library	617.5 JOY (Text)	30444100165327	Adult Nonfiction	Available	-

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