Winner of a 2014 Stonewall Book Award
Her sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughingstock at
school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a
daring new girl in her life really change anything?
Angie is broken--by her can't-be-bothered mother, by her high-school
tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her
varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Hiding under a
mountain of junk food hasn't kept the pain (or the shouts of "crazy mad
cow!") away. Having failed to kill herself--in front of a gym full of
kids--she's back at high school just trying to make it through each day.
That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, the kind of girl who doesn't
exist in Dryfalls, Ohio. A girl who is one hundred and ninety-nine
percent wow! A girl who never sees her as Fat Angie, and who knows too
well that the package doesn't always match what's inside. With an
offbeat sensibility, mean girls to rival a horror classic, and
characters both outrageous and touching, this darkly comic anti-romantic
romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful
fiction.