![]() ![]() My one disappointment with the writing is: Awad does a great job of inhabiting the person in each story, but I did not find enough of a connecting thread between the different versions of Elizabeth. Her various egos, Lizzie, Liz, Beth and Elizabeth, all have a different voice. Elizabeth changes her name throughout the book as an effort to define her ever-changing self. ![]() This structure does fit the story very well presenting the book as a series of short stories rather than one continuous story allows Awad to explore the different selves that Elizabeth inhabits throughout her journey.Īwad does an excellent job inhabiting the voices of the narrators, whether that be the men or the many different manifestations of Elizabeth. ![]() All but two of the stories are told from Elizabeth’s point of view “Your Biggest Fan” and “She’ll Do Anything” are told from a lover and her husband’s view, respectively. We find an inverse relationship between her battles with her body and mind: as she loses weight she falls into disordered and obsessive thinking. ![]() Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girlis a collection of short stories that follows the protagonist, Elizabeth, from adolescence to adulthood and gives us a snapshot of 13 moments in her battle with herself and her body and herself and her mind. ![]()
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