Fat Girl Dances with Rocks
Susan Stinson
Publisher’s Note
It’s the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home, and meets people with bodies and abilities as various as the textures of the rocks her friend Felice collects. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a novel about the many shapes of beauty: the fold of a belly, the green swelling of seedlings, the sharp edges of granite, obsidian, and flint. Fat Girl Dances with Rocks is a coming of age story. It is a coming out story, and for Char, it is a story of coming into her own body – all the way to the edges of her skin.
Industry reviews
‘[This novel] reads like a good movie with fast paced scenes; crisp language tightly edited for excess and real dialogue. The narrative line rocks with all the smooth rhythm of good back up for the ‘very hot’ lead characters: seventeen year-old Char and her best high school buddy Felice Ventura…The author Susan Stinson is at her revealing best piling on external detail to create a dizzy, sexy story of female adolescent-teenage desire and discovery.’
Lambda Book Report – Jyl Lynn Feldman
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Details
| ISBN | 1883523028 |
| Genre | Coming Out |
| Publication Date | Sep-94 |
| Publisher | Spinsters Ink Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 179 |
| Notes | ‘[This novel] reads like a good movie with fast paced scenes; crisp language tightly edited for excess and real dialogue. The narrative line rocks with all the smooth rhythm of good back up for the ‘very hot’ lead characters: seventeen year-old Char and her best high school buddy Felice Ventura…The author Susan Stinson is at her revealing best piling on external detail to create a dizzy, sexy story of female adolescent-teenage desire and discovery.’ – Lambda Book Report |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 3815 |
