An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. When she was in her early forties, Frances Kuffel lost half her body weight. In Passing for Thin , Frances describes with unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor her first fumbling introductions to... read more
“"Having choices would mean making exclusions, not something a glutton is good at. As I took up less space I became more visible. I was not being dismissed or categorized, I was being evaluated....My visibility would lead to evaluations of the me I could not blame on being fat." (pg 73)”
Obesity’s cardinal rule was that anything I wanted I couldn’t have, except more food.Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
I’d lost some essential raw attack instinct that good writing needs to sustain itself. I lost my ability to disappear fully into anything but food, eating to the point of being able to breathe only in shallow sips.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
A fat person doesn’t fit the human comforts and imperatives of rest and warmth. What’s left? The other necessity of biology—food.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
my heart and mind were at their best when my eating was meted and defined.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Not only was I breaking some definition of what I was, but I was putting her identity at risk as well.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
1. Arrival on the Planet Fat
2. Life on the Planet Fat
3. Gangplank
4. Departure from the Planet Fat
5. Orbiting
6. Arrival on the Planet of Girls
7. Settlement House
8. This Body
9. Habitat for Humanity
10. Visit to the Planet Fat
11. S. O. S.
12. Alien Visitors from the Planet of Men
13. Citizenship
14. Girl Overboard
15. An Alien Visitor to the Planet of Women
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