Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

By Crystal Maldonado ,

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Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

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Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.

People sometimes have a problem with that last…

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Why read it?

2 authors picked Fat Chance, Charlie Vega as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I come from a fat family. The healthiest version of me is still fat to some people.

Growing up, I worried that no one would like me (or love me!) because of my size. I would have killed for a book like Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, whose protagonist shares those fears, even as she falls for a cute classmate and navigates the opinions of friends and family.

In a society that often excludes people her size, Charlie gets to be the lead in a fresh spin on high school love stories.

Charlie’s mom is anything but accepting of her weight. And that’s unfortunate because Charile really does want to love her body and wants to be accepted for who she is no matter what.

In a world where thin social media influencers, models, and actors perpetuate harmful ideals about weight and size, Charlie shows us someone who is capable of loving their whole curvy and quirky self. I was rooting for Charlie to find romantic love and self-love no matter what, throughout this entire funny, fast-paced, and heart-warming YA novel.

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