{"id":14413,"date":"2013-02-20T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/02\/20\/14413.html"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:28:30","slug":"stranger-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2013\/02\/20\/stranger-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Here, and Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, I read Jen Larsen's newly released memoir <cite>Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head<\/cite>. I haven't yet worked out everything I want to say about it, but I figured I'd start with a preliminary post saying I liked it a lot and I recommend it. (Though I assume it would be pretty triggery for some people.) And I found it compellingly readable; it usually takes me a week or two to get through a book, but I read this one in a day.<\/p>\n<p>It's available on paper and in Kindle format from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stranger-Here-Weight-Loss-Surgery-Transformed\/dp\/1580054463\">Amazon<\/a>; I got it in ebook form from iBooks.<\/p>\n<p>More about it when I've had more time to think about it and to figure out what I want to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Jen is having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksmith.com\/event\/jen-larsen-stranger-here-how-weight-loss-surgery-transformed-my-body-and-messed-my-head\">book launch party<\/a> on March 28 in San Francisco, at The Booksmith bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, yesterday I also received in the mail (and read) <cite>Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace<\/cite>, subtitled &ldquo;a body-positive coloring book,&rdquo; written and drawn by Nicole Lorenz. It too is lovely and awesome: a collection of 18 portraits of fat women in various sfnal contexts, with great (and sometimes hilarious) captions describing who they are. I doubt that I'll use it as a coloring book, but I'm delighted to have it.<\/p>\n<p>Also available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fat-Ladies-Spaaaaace-body-positive-coloring\/dp\/1463786832\">Amazon<\/a>, but I bought it from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3661969\">Createspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read Jen Larsen&#8217;s newly released memoir Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}