Fat Kid Rules The World

K. L. Going lives in Glen Spey, NY. Since graduating college she has worked as an adult literacy tutor, a ticket agent for an airline, a front desk clerk at a resort hotel, as an assistant to two agents at a Manhattan Literary agency, and a manager of an independent bookstore. Currently she is writing full time.She has lived in Maine, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and New York City and has a very unsettling obsession with Ketchup.

Remarkable debut ... New York's meaner streets and their humanity have never been more entertainingly recreated The Irish Times 20040727 Funny, poignant and irresistable, Fat Kid will easily win fans -- Linda Newbery TES 20040903 It's witty, slick, feel-good and it's got a street-wise kind of truth to it Books for Keeps 20041101 A darkly comic story ... Highly recommended Inis 20041201 Super book ... Emotional and very moving Teen Titles 20060101