Big Girl A Novel

Danielle Steel

eBook - 2010

In this heartfelt, incisive novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. A chubby little girl with ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to ...New York City. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her...

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Published
Random House Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Danielle Steel
Online Access
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB0030DHPD4
Release Date2/23/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780440339526
Release Date2/23/2010