Full name: Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self

Author: Frances Kuffel Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Health Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780767912921 0767912926

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. When she was in her early forties, Frances Kuffel lost half her body weight. In Passing for Thin, Frances describes with unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor her first fumbling introductions to her newly slender body, shining a light on the shared human experience of feeling uncomfortable in one's own skin. She gradually moves from observer to player--enjoying for the first time flirting, exercising, and shopping-as she explores the terrain on the "Planet of Thin." As Frances gradually comes to know--and love--the stranger in the mirror, she learns that her body does not define her, but enables her to become the woman she's always wanted to be. Similar books: Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli Then Again by Diane Keaton The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy Let Me Finish by Roger Angell In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer Extreme by Sharon Osbourne What Remains by Carole Radziwill Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley Half-Assed by Jennette Fulda Immortal Bird by Doron Weber