Title - Manstealing for Fat Girls
 | Manstealing for Fat Girls
Embree, Michelle
March 2006
Sixteen year old Angie is called "Lezzylard�" by her classmates. Her best friend Shelby is an out dyke--in a working class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s – while the third member of their trio can't shoplift because security guards always fixate on her one enormous breast. Angie's mother is marrying a man with a sleazy moustache who puts up NASCAR posters in the living room while her friend Inez, the school's pot-dealer and sometime beer whore, stands outside convenience stories, pretending to talk on payphones in order to yell things like, "I'm not having your RAPE BABY, DAD! Give me the money for an abortion or I'm gonna have you KILLED!" Inez, it turns out, is also on a diet.
Angie is teased by classmates, than platonically seduced by the prettiest girl in school, who is anorexic and wants to make imaginary grocery lists with her. To top it off, she told fat-baiting Mindy Overton to "just puke up your lunch and kill yourself already," prompting the school's most brutal popular kids to decide she needs to be taken down a notch. Just how is Angie supposed to get though the next two months?
Complete with acid dealing high schoolers and characters obsessed with FDS "pussy deodorant," Manstealing for Fat Girls takes Mean Girls and makes it scarier and funnier, more political and closer to the bone. (Soft Skull Press)
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ISBN: 9781933368023
Type: Pbk.
Number of pages: 272pp
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Date Of Publication: 200602
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