I just finished reading "Fat Girl" by Judith Moore and thought I'd share my reaction. I honestly expected this to be like every other fat women's memoir. Part humiliation, part humor with an obvious overtone of how the main character's unhappiness will all be solved by losing 50 pounds. "Fat Girl" took me by surprise. There isn't any really any lesson to be learned. This is not a happy story of how the girl loses weight and finds her perfect ending. This is more of a story about a girl's super unhappy childhood. And by the way, this girl happens to be fat. She is punished for her weight by her sadistic mother and grandmother and abandoned by her father and his family. Judith resorts to some pretty desperate measures to feel loved, including finding comfort in food. Her descriptions are great and you can easily feel like you are right there in Judith's horrid childhood. An interesting read, but definitely not a feel-good memoir.
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