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Hardcover: William Morrow, May 27, 2008,
ISBN-10: 0060843292
ISBN-13: 978-0060843298
Read Early Reader reviews of Moose»
With
her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly
popular Straight Up And Dirty offers a powerful
and beautifully stark portrait of adolescence
While pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie
Klein reeling: “You need to gain fifty pounds.” Instantly, an adolescence
filled with insecurity, disappointment, and embarrassment comes flooding
back. Though she is determined to gain the weight for the health of her
babies—even if it means she’ll “weigh more than a Honda” —she can only
express what deep fear this causes by telling her doctor simply, “I used
to be fat.”
Stephanie was a seventh-grader with a weight problem. It was a problem
at school, where the boys called her “Moose” and her only friends were
the nerds and misfits, and it was a problem at home, where her father
reminded her, “No one likes fat girls.” After several unsuccessful attempts
at dieting and many frustrating sessions with a nutritionist known as
the Fat Doctor of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, Stephanie’s parents enrolled
her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to return to school thin and
popular, without her “lard arms” and “puckered ham,” Stephanie embarked
on a memorable journey that would shape more than just her body. It would
shape her life.
In the ever-shifting terrain between fat and thin, adulthood and childhood,
cellulite and starvation, Stephanie shares the cutting details of what
it truly feels like to be an overweight child, from the stinging taunts
of classmates, to the off-color remarks of her own father, to her thin
mother’s compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body. Calling upon her
childhood diary entries to jog her memory, Klein opens up and uncovers
her deepest thoughts and feelings from that turbulent, hopeful time, baring
her soul and making her heartache palpable.
Whether Klein is describing her life as a chubby adolescent camper—getting
weighed on a meat scale, petting past curfew, and “chunky dunking” in
the lake—or what it’s like now as a fit mother, having one-sided conversations
with her newborn twins about the therapy they’ll one day need, this hilarious
yet grippingly vulnerable book will remind you what it was like to feel
like an outsider, to desperately seek the right outfit, the right slang,
the best comeback, or whatever that unattainable something was that would
finally make you fit in.
Kirkus Reviews
A candid memoir of the author's struggle with her weight. When Klein (Straight
Up and Dirty: A Memoir, 2006), a self-professed rotund adolescent turned
nicely shaped adult, was told by her pre-term labor specialist that she
must gain 50 pounds before giving birth, the author understandably balked.
"If I gained 50 pounds, I'd weigh more than a Honda," she notes,
"and certainly more than my husband, which was worse." Her doctor's
edict transported her back to childhood, which was filled with taunts,
unrequited crushes and unhealthy processed food. Klein recalls when she
hit "156 pounds and change" despite numerous trips to a local
nutritionist, after which she was sent off to Camp Yanisin, an overnight
camp where overweight children learn how to eat and exercise properly.
The most important lessons came not from the counselors, but from fellow
campers, who all battled the same demons. A popular blogger, Klein is
occasionally honest to the point of discomfort, but her sense of humor
and appreciation of the absurd temper her periodic self-pity and make
her sophomore outing at once readable and inspiring. When things get too
heavy (no pun intended), there's a childhood diary entry to lighten the
mood: "I'm considered ‘hot' at this camp. I'm going to get so much
booty when I get home-don't get me wrong, I'm not a slut. I just have
a hard time saying ‘no.' "With vivid characterizations, spot-on locale
descriptions and sly jokes at her own expense, Klein offers an original
and touching take on the all-too-common problem of childhood obesity.
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Hardcover: Regan Books, July 2006, ISBN: 0-0608-4327-6
"I did have my own friends, my own salary, my health, and TiVo: all the
important things we're likely to take for granted. Still, when it hit
that I'd now have to date again, I panicked. Dating meant nightclubs,
heels, and black. It meant, 'No, thank you. Really, I'm full.' It meant
matching bras and underwear. Clothes with 'micro' used to describe them.
Because until you date again, people will hiccup lines about getting back
on horses. So you invest in an Agent Provocateur whip and a subscription
to an online dating service. . . ." --from
Straight Up And Dirty
She had every girl's dream: the perfect marriage to the perfect guy in
the perfect apartment on the Upper East Side. Marriage fit Stephanie Klein
like a glove . . . but unfortunately it fit her husband like a noose.
And then, just like that, Klein found herself "divorced when you're firm,
fashionable, and let's face it--fetching."
Celebrated bloggist, photographer, and freelance writer Stephanie Tara
Klein lets it all hang out in this juicy tell-all tracing her jump back
into single life following her divorce. On the dating advice of her therapist,
Klein attempts to keep "a pair and a spare" of men always on hand and
has lots of bawdy fun along the way. But when the anniversary of the devastating
breakup from her "wasband" forces her to revisit what happened, she finds
herself wanting more than her therapist's recommended gimmick to keep
her emotionally safe.
Straight Up And Dirty demonstrates that the true measure
of success isn't what's crossed off life's to-do list. It's having the
grace and fortitude to move through change, curls intact and smiling.
"Nothing, it seems, is too private not to share with readers. And that
is exactly how they like it... Ms. Klein's legions of followers seem as
absorbed in her escapades as if she were a television character, the Carrie
Bradshaw of New York bloggers." --The New York Times
"Fearless... Her adventures take her from Soho to the Hamptons--looking
for love, with a cocktail in her hand." --The Independent (London)
"Klein's every move over the past two years has been validated and evaluated
by an audience that has latched on to her life with an aspirational zeal."
--Elle Magazine
"50 Must Summer Reads" --Entertainment Weekly
"You'll hoot with laughter, cringe and discover the addictive world of
Klein." --London Daily Record
A kooky, heartfelt and ultimately triumphant chronicle of young divorce
and the importance of family, friends and a good shrink." --Susan
Shapiro, author of Lighting Up |
