Dietland

De: Sarai Walker

Narrado por: Tara Sands

Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. She is biding her time at a job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls' magazine until she can afford weight-loss surgery. But lately she is being followed by a girl in outlandish clothes and combat boots.

When Plum finally confronts her, she finds herself falling into the mysterious world of Calliope House, where an odd collection of women orbit around Verena Baptist, daughter of a famous diet guru. Verena offers to give Plum the money for the surgery, but there is a catch: First Plum must go through a series of seemingly perverse challenges that will force her to confront her past, her doubts, and the real cost of becoming "beautiful".

Dietland is a scathing and revolutionary debut that takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our obsession with weight loss - from the inside out and with fists flying.

©2015 Reproduced by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (P)2015 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery, when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called 'Jennifer' - equal parts Bridget Jones' Diary and Fight Club. Keenly intelligent, daring, and original, Dietland has something important to say to us all." (Alice Mattison, author of When We Argued All Night)

Changed me for the better. A fun read, too.

The story, especially at the beginning, is quite engaging. This book has the potential to change our culture if enough people read it and think about it and talk about it. Perhaps if enough of us get angry something will change.

Women's literature novel for College

I would recommend this book to those who struggle with self image and to those who want a peek inside the mind of some women. (An easily relatable book)

Dietland - No Sugar Coating

I would recommend Dietland to readers who enjoy biting darkness in their stories. I think it is too angry for most people. I also fear that it might insult or injure the very readers that it is trying to represent.

As a fantasy, it's very good. Tara Sands gives an outstanding performance reading this material. The combination of Sarai Walker's writing and Tara Sands' performance had me looking forward to what would come next. Be warned - it's dark - no sugar coating is included-not one bit.

This is a very well-written book, especially for a debut novel. I chose this because of the title and I had heard that Julianna Margulies did a project of the same name on television after "The Good Wife" went off the air. I have not watched the TV show.
However, I have been on both sides of dieting in real life.

The book has great moments and it depicts many aspects of life in a very creative, accurate, and accessible way. At the same time, I felt that the editor might have failed the writer in some ways. For example, there is a total absence of heavy set men in this book. An opportunity was missed - it would've been interesting for the main character, Plum to encounter a man similar to herself in size. She might have learned something about her own prejudices and preconceptions.

As many books do, this piece started out extremely strong and then it collapses a bit - relying too heavily on darkness to carry the story to its conclusion.

It made me love myself again

The best fictional self help book I have ever read. My mind is blown. It will change your life.

great read!! great characters! Delightful!

not at all what I expected. what a really great book!! really glad I stumbled upon. it. one of those books that makes you think about things in a more peripheral se se
entertaining, thought provoking and xdr well written.