13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the U.S. on and off since 2003. A graduate of York University in Toronto, her debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, won the 2016 Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize. She is currently a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Denver. Her second novel, Bunny, is also published by Head of Zeus.

In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl