One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte. Change my name for Bobby Marks’ and it does a good job echoing what I went through when I was a kid. The bullying because of my weight, the criticism from some of my own family, having few friends: sounds all too familiar. The only difference was that I still have not been able to lose weight even after over 40 years. I knew that there was probably going to be a lot of blowback in my mind when I read this, and I was right. I never want to read this book again, It’s the closest I’ve come to having a nervous breakdown!
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