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STRANGER HERE
How Weight Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed Up My Head
A deeply intelligent and uniquely qualified perspective on weight loss told with hilarity, poignancy, and razor-sharp wit.
Jen Larsen isn’t just a woman who underwent weight loss surgery (in 2006, she weighed 316 lbs before undergoing a procedure called the duodenal switch), she is a gifted WRITER who did — and she has captured the whole experience in a way that will speak to women and men, young, old, fat, thin.
She expands and renews the familiar up-and-down story of weight loss in the drama of such an incredible, dizzying swing from a terribly high weight to a startlingly low one in a brief snatch of time, tells the truth unflinchingly but with humor, and gives it depth and resonance. Like any great personal story, including THE LIAR’S CLUB, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, and AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE, STRANGER HERE pulls you in, keeps you turning the pages, makes you care desperately about the person, and remains indelibly in your mind when you finish.
STRANGER HERE emphasizes the very un-pretty truth that there are no easy conclusions. It does not start with an epiphany and end with a happily ever after of eating salads and mall walking. It is a work with a core of deep emotion and thoughtful discussion filled with grace and humor and honesty, and a personal approach that deliberately shies away from prescribing solutions to a reader’s potential problems. Jen writes about weight loss and the hunt for self-acceptance the way Caroline Knapp writes about the horrible pleasures of anorexia, of needing, of craving, in APPETITES. And her prose is just as gorgeous.
Jen Larsen lives on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. For two years she was the featured blogger on Condé Nast's Elastic Waist, where her columns about her struggles with weight loss surgery were consistently the most popular content on the site. Her columns have also been syndicated on Yahoo!'s Shine Network for Women. She is a “collaborator” at Big Fat Deal, a blog that focuses on the portrayal of weight in media and popular culture and which has been featured on CBS News Healthwatch, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, ABC.com and other major news outlets. An essay about her complicated relationship with food and the aftermath of weight loss surgery is forthcoming in the collection THE DISH: MAKING THE FOOD THAT MAKES YOUR FAMILY, featuring Neal Pollack, Frank Bruni, and Melissa Clark (Shambhala 2012). She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco.
She expands and renews the familiar up-and-down story of weight loss in the drama of such an incredible, dizzying swing from a terribly high weight to a startlingly low one in a brief snatch of time, tells the truth unflinchingly but with humor, and gives it depth and resonance. Like any great personal story, including THE LIAR’S CLUB, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, and AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE, STRANGER HERE pulls you in, keeps you turning the pages, makes you care desperately about the person, and remains indelibly in your mind when you finish.
STRANGER HERE emphasizes the very un-pretty truth that there are no easy conclusions. It does not start with an epiphany and end with a happily ever after of eating salads and mall walking. It is a work with a core of deep emotion and thoughtful discussion filled with grace and humor and honesty, and a personal approach that deliberately shies away from prescribing solutions to a reader’s potential problems. Jen writes about weight loss and the hunt for self-acceptance the way Caroline Knapp writes about the horrible pleasures of anorexia, of needing, of craving, in APPETITES. And her prose is just as gorgeous.
Jen Larsen lives on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. For two years she was the featured blogger on Condé Nast's Elastic Waist, where her columns about her struggles with weight loss surgery were consistently the most popular content on the site. Her columns have also been syndicated on Yahoo!'s Shine Network for Women. She is a “collaborator” at Big Fat Deal, a blog that focuses on the portrayal of weight in media and popular culture and which has been featured on CBS News Healthwatch, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, ABC.com and other major news outlets. An essay about her complicated relationship with food and the aftermath of weight loss surgery is forthcoming in the collection THE DISH: MAKING THE FOOD THAT MAKES YOUR FAMILY, featuring Neal Pollack, Frank Bruni, and Melissa Clark (Shambhala 2012). She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco.
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Published 2013-03-01 by Seal Press |