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Dietland (Tie-In) - by Sarai Walker (Paperback)

Dietland (Tie-In) - by  Sarai Walker (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>AN AMC ORIGINAL SERIES starring Joy Nash, Julianna Margulies and Rowena King, written and executive produced by Marti Noxon. </b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><strong>An AMC ORIGINAL SERIES and named Best Book of the Year by <em>Entertainment Weekly</em>, <em>Bustle</em>, <em>Amazon</em>, <em>Kirkus</em> <em>Reviews</em>, and others. <em>Dietland</em> is a gutsy, stinging satire of our beauty-obsessed society.</strong><br/><br/>Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. But when a mysterious woman in colorful tights and combat boots begins following her, Plum falls down a rabbit hole into the world of Calliope House--an underground community of women who reject society's rules--and is forced to confront the real costs of becoming "beautiful." <br/><br/>At the same time, a guerilla group begins terrorizing a world that mistreats women, and Plum becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive. <br/><br/>A giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin" (<em>Entertainment Weekly</em>), <em>Dietland</em> takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight-loss obsession--with fists flying.<br/><br/>"Audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking--<em>Dietland</em> completely blew me away."--Jennifer Weiner<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>An Amazon Top 100 Editors' Pick of the Year</b> <b>One of <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>'s "10 Best Books of 2015"</b> <b>One of Bustle's "2015's 25 Best Books, Fiction Edition"</b> <b>A <i>New York Post</i> "Best Novel to Read This Summer" </b> <b>An <i>Us Weekly</i> "Hot Summer Novel"</b> <b><i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"</b> <b>A <i>USA Today</i> "New and Noteworthy" Book </b> <b>One of Vulture's "8 Books You Need to Read This May"</b> <b>A <i>Kirkus</i> "Best Fiction of 2015" Title</b> <b>One of <i>BookPage</i>'s "Best Books of 2015"</b> <b>One of Kobo.com's "Must Read Fiction Debuts of 2015"</b> <b>A LitReactor Staff Pick: The Best Books of 2015</b> <b>One of New York Daily News's "10 Books for Your Summer Reading List"</b> <b>Women's National Book Association, "Great Group Reads 2015" </b> <b>An Indie Next Pick</b> "<i>Dietland</i> completely blew me away. It's audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking and I want to grab women on the street and shake them until they promise to read it--and also buy copies for their daughters." --Jennifer Weiner, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Good In Bed</i>, <i>In Her Shoes</i>, and others "Walker's first novel leaves chick lit in the pixie dust, treading the rougher terrain of radical critique and shadowy conspiracies -- territory closer to Rachel Kushner than Helen Fielding."--<i>New York Magazine, </i>One of Vulture's "8 Books You Need to Read This May" "If Amy Schumer turned her subversive feminist sketches into a novel, dark on the inside but coated with a glossy, palatable sheen, it would probably look a lot like <i>Dietland</i>--a thrilling, incendiary manifesto disguised as a beach read...It's a giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin, no matter its size."--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> (Grade: A) "I've never dropped anyone out of a helicopter. But <i>Dietland </i>resonated with the part of me that wants, just once, to deck a street harasser. At the very least, I wish an incurable itch upon everyone who has catcalled me on the street. I wish food poisoning and public embarrassment on everyone I've heard make a rape joke. I wish toothache and headlice and too-small shoes upon every stranger who has told me to smile. Which is to say, sometimes I forget I'm angry, but I am. <i>Dietland </i>is a complicated, thoughtful, and powerful expression of that same anger."--Annalisa Quinn, NPR.org "Plum Kettle, a ghostwriter for a popular teen mag, is lured into a subversive sisterhood in this riotous first novel. Finally, the feminist murder mystery/makeover story we've been waiting for."--<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>, One of "10 Titles to Pick Up Now" "A delightful, page-turning thriller that's also a feminist revenge fantasy. I tore through it in about two days--it is amazingly accessible while still being whip-smart, and it deals with timely issues without feeling like a lame <i>Law & Order</i> 'ripped from the headlines' stunt."----Jessica Grose, Lenny Letter "[Ms. Walker's] writing can spit with venom, at the rigid expectations of women's weight and sexuality...As a social commentary, <i>Dietland</i> is no shrill tirade. Ms. Walker captures the misery of failing to fit in, to fit into the right clothes, to fit in with the right people and their expectations.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>SARAI WALKER worked as a writer and editor for <i>Our Bodies, Ourselves.</i> Her articles have appeared in national publications, including the <i>New York Times</i>. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College and her PhD in English from the University of London.

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