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A review by tillyjournals
If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
3.5
Winnie is getting ready to go to college in the fall. But before that she's going to spend her summer working at her Granny's diner and a lot unravels from her, the relationship that means the most to her, the guy she hates, her relationship with Granny and her dreams to own Granny's diner one day.
This is a decent coming of age story, but honestly, it kinda dragged for me. There is a heck of a lot of fatphobia, and no real acceptance in the end and that really annoyed me. Winnie's Granny is actually the worse sort of person, and Kara reallllly annoyed me at times.
I did love the representation not only of a black fat queer heroine, but of a lot of other things too. Overall it was good, but it had so much more potential then came out of it.
This is a decent coming of age story, but honestly, it kinda dragged for me. There is a heck of a lot of fatphobia, and no real acceptance in the end and that really annoyed me. Winnie's Granny is actually the worse sort of person, and Kara reallllly annoyed me at times.
I did love the representation not only of a black fat queer heroine, but of a lot of other things too. Overall it was good, but it had so much more potential then came out of it.