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This cloth-bound special edition of Danielle Material’s Big Girl is enhanced with precious metal leaf, comes with a special slip circumstance, and is authorized by the author.
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Material celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
A chubby little girl with blond mane, blue sight, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always experienced out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is extra tall and slim, and her mom, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their little girl’s appears. When Victoria is six, she views an image of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she appears exactly like her. Following the delivery of Victoria’s perfect more radiant sister, Gracie, her father liked to make reference to his firstborn as “our tester wedding cake.” With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina first got it right.
While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as experience her father’s belittling responses about her body and find out her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Snow cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is the fact she has to get away from home, and after college or university in Chicago, she moves to New York City.
Landing her aspiration job as a higher school educator, Victoria loves working with her students and wages battle on her weight at the fitness center. Despite anxiety with her parents, Victoria remains near to her sister. And though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love one another unconditionally. But no matter her accomplishments, Victoria’s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will continually be her father’s “big female,” and her mom’s frequent disapproval is similarly unkind.
When Elegance announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of these narcissistic father, Victoria problems about her sister’s future joy, and without man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an function of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation business lead to a turning point.
Behind Victoria is an eternity of damage and neglect she has tried to ignore, and even glaciers cream can no longer boring the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she actually is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big female or not, she actually is fantastic and discovers that herself.
