A very popular sub-genre, Bigger Girl/Dieting/Weight Loss Lit features bigger-than-average women living, loving, and working. Many of these stories feature the main heroine trying to lose weight, and at the same time get their lives in order, find love, etc. These books can range from being very realistic to being somewhat of a fantasy. A few of these books are memoirs.
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“Alternate Beauty” by Andrea Rains Waggener, is a wonderfully written book about the controversial metamorphosis of the “skinny world” as we know it today. It is story about a larger woman whom gets placed into a new world where “obesity” is beautiful and “slender” is foul. Waggener depicts how to uncover the fail of uglyness to unvail the truth of beauty and happiness. It is a slow starter however a good weekend read.