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kris10akemi's review
5.0
Recommended by a friend. Beautifully written memoire. Nolan’s stories were vulnerable and honest. She shared her experiences with racism, fatphobia, and sexism with a focus on how her intersectionality shaped her. She touched on her lack of belongingness being mixed (Mexican, Black, and white) and coming to terms with her parents’ families’ histories. Also loved how she reflected on her life through essays, a style I haven’t read before
emilykuper's review
5.0
Absolutely stunning.
As we hear often, this was a book of windows and mirrors. As a white woman, there are parts of Nolan’s story that I didn’t innately understand or consider prior to reading Don’t Let It Get You Down. As a fat woman, I was intensely validated and moved by Nolan’s story.
As we hear often, this was a book of windows and mirrors. As a white woman, there are parts of Nolan’s story that I didn’t innately understand or consider prior to reading Don’t Let It Get You Down. As a fat woman, I was intensely validated and moved by Nolan’s story.
ktxx22's review
3.0
The essay’s in this that resonated with me most were when she spoke about being fat and dating. Unfortunately she lost me a bit further in. Not a bad thing by any means but overall I’d say this book isn’t for me, and that bums me out because part of reading memoirs or personal essays that I like is connecting and being able to relate to the author and outside of my fatness and being a mother I really struggled here because I wanted for meat to most of the essays. I needed more to connect better.