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Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. She was persuaded that once she found a way to not be extra fat any more, she would contain the perfect existence she'd always imagined. When diet after diet failed, she made a decision to try bariatric surgery, and it performed much better than she ever might have imagined: she lost 180 pounds. As the weight dropped away, though, Larsen became aware that getting skinny had not been the magical cure she thought it would be and abruptly, she wasn't sure who she was anymore. Stranger Here is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious tale of 1 woman's journey in one extreme of the weight variety to the other, and of the unpredicted mental chaos it created. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating lows she experienced therefore of her weight damage, the incredible joy of finally beginning to appear to be the image of herself she's always carried inside her brain, and the crushing pain and dilemma of feeling just like a stranger in her own body after getting rid of the weight that has always identified her.
