Skinny (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780062020369)

"Skinnywill be my go-to recommendation all year for anyone who wants smart, endearing, beautifully written women's fiction." --Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of TheOne That I Want and Time of My Life

"Spechler...transcends melodrama and clichewith striking sensitivity and delicate touch." --Boston Globe

To escape thegrief she feels following her father's death, twenty-six year old Brooklynite Gray Lachmann becomesa counselor at a summer camp for overweight children, where she discovers shehas her own demons to battle both emotionally and physically. In Skinny, the ambitious, accomplished, anddarkly humorous second novel fromreader-favorite Diana Spechler--author of Who ByFire and acontributor to Rumpus Women Volume 1--a vividly realized cast of characters mustcome to terms with eating disorders, buried secrets, and the trials of growingup.

Author: Diana Spechler
ISBN-10: 0062020366
ISBN-13: 9780062020369
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2011
Booklist 04/01/2011 pg. 28