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If this is a trend, then it’s certainly a long overdue one:
Poets and writers are awakening to the notion that the man-versus-fat story encompasses all the original struggles of man – against others who loathe him, a God who seems to doom him and, perhaps especially, against the self that fails, despairs and, occasionally, wins. What better story can be told?
I don’t know about “better” story, but that’s certainly a good story that should have long been told, and a lot of people are doing just that. Beside Jen Weiner‘s Good In Bed, the article mentions Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang’s collection What Are You Looking At (which features writing by the likes of Junot Diaz) and a bunch of other memoirs and fiction due to hit shelves soon.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.