Fat Girls Dance

Fat Girls DanceBy: Cathleen Meredith Playwright, podcaster, and pioneering body positivity influencer Cathleen Meredith takes the viral dance phenomenon from the internet to bookshelves with FatGirlsDance, the hilarious, irreverent, and poignant fictionalized story of how three fat girls accidentally started the Year of Dance. Liv. Reese. Faith. Yes, they are plus size, curvy, thick, whatever. Point is, they are past sick of societys relentless body shaming defining

Kids will have a blast

The joys and trials of fourth grade —and of life with her father now that her mother is gone — play out in charming letters from Annie to her dog

each child in this wonderfully-diverse classroom mentions their favorite things in rhyme: I am thankful for my grandma's pies

and his great-grandmother

staves off conflict with her jealous older brother by allowing him to take away the choicest morsels from her plate—and from her future

or find ourselves in the soup

As well as experiments

she isn't long for a life of drudgery

As Sontag told Nunez

without earning

travel back to the stormy

now back from exile in Faerie