The consequences are explosive. Dietland is a bold, original, and funny debut novel that takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight loss obsession - from the inside out, and with fists flying. Membership Advantages. Reviews. "Beyond the Book" articles. “Sarai Walker has written a call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful, DIETLAND is a Scum Manifesto set to a pop music beat and Plum Kettle a feminist hero for the modern age.” —ALICE SEBOLD “Audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking—Dietland completely blew me away.” —JENNIFER WEINER Entertainment Weekly 10 Best Books of Sarai Walker is the author of the novel THE CHERRY ROBBERS, which will be published by Mariner Books on February 1, Her first novel, DIETLAND (HMH, ), has been published in more than a dozen countries and adapted as a television series for AMC/5().
"Sarai Walker has written a call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful, Dietland is a SCUM Manifesto set to a pop music beat and Plum Kettle is a feminist hero for the modern age." - Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "Keenly intelligent, daring, and original, Dietland has something important to say to. In Dietland, timid Plum Kettle is sure that losing weight is the key that will unlock the life she wants to bltadwin.ru when she crosses paths with a mysterious young woman, she ends up involved in a full-on riot grrl ride to a feminist awakening. Author Sarai Walker answered a few questions about her edgy, girl-power debut. DIETLAND. by Sarai Walker ‧ RELEASE DATE: . Hilarious, surreal, and bracingly original, Walker's ambitious debut avoids moralistic traps to achieve something rarer: a genuinely subversive novel that's also serious fun. At just over pounds, Plum Kettle is waiting for her real life to start: she'll be a writer.
“Sarai Walker has written a call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful, DIETLAND is a Scum Manifesto set to a pop music beat and Plum Kettle a feminist hero for the modern age.” —ALICE SEBOLD “Audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking—Dietland completely blew me away.” —JENNIFER WEINER Entertainment Weekly 10 Best Books of Sarai Walker is the author of the novel THE CHERRY ROBBERS, which will be published by Mariner Books on February 1, Her first novel, DIETLAND (HMH, ), has been published in more than a dozen countries and adapted as a television series for AMC. Sarai Walker is a writer whose book Dietland was identified as one of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best books of , and has subsequently been turned into a TV series. She has published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Refinery Walker is a fat positive activist and her writings reflect an attempt to reclaim the word fat as a mere bodily description—like tall or short.
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