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What Are You Looking At?: The First Fat Fiction Anthology by Wesley McNair, Donna Jarrell, S.L. Wisenberg, Monica Wood, Sharon Solwitz, Frederick Busch, Denise Duhamel, Patricia Goedicke, Jill McCorkle, Cathy Smith-Bowers, Rebecca Curtis, Conrad Hilberry, J.L. Haddaway, Katherine Riegel, Erin McGraw, Terrence Hayest, Dorothy Allison, Raymond Carver, Rawdon Tomlinson, Tobias Wolff, Rhoda B. Stamell, Andre Dubus, George Saunders, Pam Houston, Stephen Dunn, Allison Joseph, Junot Díaz, Ira Sukrungruang, Peter Carey, Jack Coulehan, Vern Rutsala

melanie_page's review

4.0

The stories in this collection were really great. When I read the title of the anthology, my first thought was the Raymond Carver story "Fat," and it was in there. BUT! I kept wondering...is this all there is out there in terms of "fat-fiction"? No one else writes any? Makes me want to write more of it...also makes me wonder if people don't really want to read it and that is why I can't get any published. Also, I'm really surprised that most of the reviews of this book comment that the reader expected this to be an uplifting anthology. It can be really difficult to turn a physical/psychological problem into something feel-good. I wasn't expecting that at all.