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DIETLAND

Sarai Walker

Dietland is a bold, original, and funny debut novel that takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight loss obsession—from the inside out, and with fists flying.
The diet revolution is here. And it's armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls'
magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin.

Then, when a mysterious woman starts following her, Plum finds herself falling down a rabbit hole and into an underground community of women who live life on their own terms. There Plum agrees to a series of challenges that force her to deal with her past, her doubts, and the real costs of becoming “beautiful.” At the same time, a dangerous guerrilla group called “Jennifer” begins to terrorize a world that mistreats women, and as Plum grapples with her personal struggles, she becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive.

Sarai Walker received her master's degree in Creative Writing from Bennington College, Vermont. She has written for magazines such as Seventeen and Mademoiselle and worked as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves (www.ourbodiesourselves.org) before moving to London and then Paris to complete a Ph.D. She currently lives in the US. Dietland is her first novel.
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Published 2015-05-01 by Houghton Mifflin

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"Complicated, thoughtful, and powerful"

“[Dietland's] message resonates . . . It's vanishingly rare to see a novel that looks like the much-maligned ‘chick lit'—and sometimes reads like it—so gleefully censorious of rape culture . . . If you've lived in this culture—if you've ever been a young woman who is trying to eat so little or eat so much that she disappears . . . you may take some cold comfort from Dietland, and its opportunities for vicarious revenge.”

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“10 Books for Your Summer Reading List” “Just in time for the season where many feel shamed for their lack of a ‘bikini body,' this new release explores a woman's journey to accept that she's fat. But it's not just about feel-good self-love; Dietland develops into a full-fledged feminist manifesto.”

An Amazon Best Book of 2015

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"Hilarious, surreal, and bracingly original, Walker's ambitious debut avoids moralistic traps to achieve something rarer: a genuinely subversive novel that's also serious fun...Part Fight Club, part feminist manifesto, an offbeat and genre-bending novel that aims high—and delivers."

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

"This novel is like a roller coaster. Before you know it, you're racing through an edgy and exciting mix of mystery, crime, and social critique of gender and beauty standards at breakneck speed. Vivid characters and sometimes surprising acts of violence make the story pop."

"[A] riotous first novel"

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"[Ms. Walker's] writing can spit with venom, at the rigid expectations of women's weight and sexuality...As a social commentary, Dietland is no shrill tirade. Ms. Walker captures the misery of failing to fit in, to fit into the right clothes, to fit in with the right people and their expectations."

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“Through her protagonist, debut novelist Walker gives a plaintive yet powerful voice to anyone who has struggled with body image, feelings of marginalization, and sexual manipulation. Her robust satire also vibrantly redefines what it means to be a woman in contemporary society.”

Atlantic

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DIETLAND Drama From Marti Noxon & Skydance Gets 10-Episode Order from AMC; Noxon is known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Sharp Objects, and Mad Men. Read more...

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"A call to arms. Devious, suversive, delightful."

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Altin Kitaplar

"Fight Club meets Margaret Atwood"

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"If Amy Schumer turned her subversive feminist sketches into a novel, dark on the inside but coated with a glossy, palatable sheen, it would probably look a lot like Dietland—a thrilling, incendiary manifesto disguised as a beach read...It's a giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin, no matter its size."

"A book with a message, loud and clear." Read more...

"At 300 lbs., Plum Kettle lives for the days when gastric bypass will help her shed her extra girth—until she's challenged to shed her misery instead. Witty and wise.”