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Savala Nolan Trepczynski knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Trepczynski's mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mother's encouragement, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been both fat and painfully thin throughout her life. She has experienced both the discomfort of generational poverty and the ease of wealth and privilege. It is these liminal spaces - of race, class, and body type - that the essays in Don't Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society's most intractable points of tension. The twelve essays that comprise this collection are rich with unforgettable anecdotes, and are as humorous and as full of Trepczynski's appetites as they are of anxieties.