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An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body.In the opening pages of Passing for Thin, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim. He strides past her without a glimmer of recognition because she barely resembles the woman he is expecting to see. Jim had last seen her when she was 188 pounds heavier.What follows is one of the most piercing explorations of the limits and promises of a body since Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face. With unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor, Frances describes her first fumbling introductions to the slender, alien body she is left with after losing half her weight, shining a light on the shared human experience of feeling, at times, uncomfortable in one’s own skin.
About the Author
A baby boomer born & raised in Missoula, MT. I'm working on a couple of projects these days, coaching writers and walking dogs.Author of Angry Fat Girls: Five Women, Five Hundred Pounds and a Year of Losing It... Again and Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self.You can find out more about my books, me, Daisy/Boomer/Hero/Henry, the Bat Cave and my ongoing explosion of shoes at franceskuffel.net
