Sure to be a boon for anyone who has struggled with body image, Shrill is a triumphant, exacting, absorbing memoir that will lay new groundwork for the way we talk about the taboo of being too large. Despite the book’s serious subject, West’s ribald jokes, hilarious tirades, and raucous confessions keep her narrative skipping merrily along as she jumps from painful confession to powerful epiphany. (See her talk about it next week at Town Hall Seattle or Third Place Books, or catch her book tour elsewhere.) It’s a memoir, she explains, a. She debunks objections to the obese as a drain on health care and advocates movingly for empathy because it’s hard being fat. Shrill Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists. Readers will delight in West’s clarity as she describes her childhood (there are no positive depictions of fat people in Disney) and beliefs (why it’s so offensive to ask fat people “where they get their confidence”), illuminating the insidious way our culture regards those who are overweight as subhuman and revolting moral and intellectual failures. Starting with the admission that she was not at all happy to get her period, West describes her inspiring progression from body hate to body love. In this uproariously funny debut, West, GQ writer and fat-acceptance activist, blends memoir, social commentary, and ribald comedy in a biting manifesto.
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