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Author:

Meyers, Randy Susan, author.

Title:

Waisted : a novel / Randy Susan Meyers.

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Atria Booksan imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

275 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Overweight women--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Documentary films--Fiction.
Body image--Social aspects--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.

Summary:

In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers. Alice and Daphne, both successful working mothers, both accomplished and seemingly steady, harbor the same secret: obsession with their weight overshadows concerns about their children, husbands, work--and everything else of importance in their lives. Scales terrify them. Daphne, plump in a family of model-thin women, learned at her mother's knee that only slimness earns admiration. Alice, break-up skinny when she met her husband, risks losing her marriage if she keeps gaining weight. The two women meet at Privation. Located in a remote Vermont mansion, the program promises fast, dramatic weight loss, and Alice, Daphne, and five other women are desperate enough to leave behind their families for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The catch? They must agree to always be on camera; afterward, the world will see Waisted: The Documentary . The women soon discover that the filmmakers have trapped them in a cruel experiment. With each pound lost, they edge deeper into obsession and instability...until they decide to take matters into their own hands.

ISBN:

1501131397
9781501131394
1501131389
9781501131387

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1050453845

LCCN:

2018041317

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