Dumplin’ Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Julie Murphy Page ID: B00RLTBO9O
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File Size: 680 KBPrint Length: 384 pagesPublisher: Balzer + Bray (September 15, 2015)Publication Date: September 15, 2015 Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers Language: EnglishID: B00RLTBO9OText-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #10,938 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #15 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Dating & Sex #18 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Emotions & Feelings #20 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Self Esteem & Reliance
This book! Oh, this book! It has sky rocketed itself to my #1 favorite book. Why? Well, well we will get to that in a moment.
Dumplin’ is about Willowdean, or Willow for short. She is your average every day girl. She works in a fast food joint, has a crush on a super cute boy named Bo, a best friend named El that she can count on through thick and thin, and she idolizes Dolly Parton. Most importantly, Willowdean is comfortable in her own skin (or is she?). She is no skinny mini. She has hips and curves.
However, when her aunt dies her world slowly starts changing in ways she doesn’t like. Dumplin’ starts approximately 6 months after her aunts funeral. She doesn’t know how to talk to her mom who is a former beauty pageant winner and happens to be the person who plans the local pageant every year. Things are starting to happen with Bo and it makes her question her size, making her uncomfortable in her skin. Then, on top of all that, she and El are starting to drift apart. El has been her lifeline for so long that she can’t imagine life without her.
Some where in all of this, Willowdean decides she is going to sign up to compete in the local beauty pageant causing even more things to start to spin out of her control.
Dumplin’ is a story of self discovery. It is beautiful, wonderful, and real. While it is written in a very light hearted manner, it is still very serious.
The characters are all written very well. Willowdean feels so real. You can’t help but wish you could have her as a friend – if only she didn’t exist on paper! I also really loved the character of Mitch. The big softy that he is. It was very easy to picture and imagine all of the characters.
I received an ARC from the publisher via Edelweiss. I have spent much of my life feeling like Dumplin. I know chub rub intimately. I still cringe when my husband touches my back fat. I found it mind blowing to consider that anyone attractive could find me attractive. These things mean that this is a realistic perspective of life as a big girl – Willowdean reads like a real, honest-to-goodness fat girl. That matters a lot to me when it comes to books like this. If you haven’t lived life as an XXL in a XS world, you just don’t get it – the struggle to love yourself in a world that seems determined to loathe and judge. I am happy to tell you no one loses weight in this book, and no one feels compelled to explain how a hot guy could fall for a full sized gal. Thank you. Seriously. Instead, you can expect to find some cross dressing Dolly Parton impersonators, myriad references to the song Jolene, and big girls showing up weird, loud, and proud to walk the beauty pageant catwalk. That sounds like an awesome prospect, so why was I so underwhelmed? I think I had certain expectations for the character of Willowdean that just weren’t in the cards. This has happened before, and I know that I can’t expect realistic characters to be my perfect characters. I will own up to the fact that my disappointment with this character is absolutely all on me. Nevertheless, I’m going to explain what I didn’t love about Miss Willowdean. She never just went for it!?! I never got that empowering moment where she said – "screw it – I’m gonna burn this mutha’ down." I really wanted that moment. I wanted Willodean to get her crap together and really show everyone what she was capable of, and I just didn’t feel like she did this. She kind of farted around and halfway lit a sparkler for the pageant. Sigh.
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