I never intended to publish my childhood diaries, and ” says Lori Gottlieb of the journals she stumbled upon. and “In fact, I never intended to find them. and ” While rifling through a closet in her parents’ house, Gottlieb found something she wasn’t looking for and barely remembered existed. The pages of these diaries served as a penetrating and ironic lens through which her younger self viewed the and “mixed-up and ” world that surrounded her. and “Of course they aren’t overweight, and ” Lori told her psychiatrist when asked if she thought the girls at school who diet are overweight. and “Didn’t I already say they were popular? and “An unflinchingly candid, bitingly funny debut, Stick Figure’s compelling mix of irreverent humor and autobiography offers dead-on observances about everything from mothers to the medical profession, gender roles to the absurdities of society’s obsession with beauty, and the confusion of being not quite a child, but not quite an adult yet either.

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