Title:
My body in pieces / by Marie-Noëlle Hébert ; translated by Shelley Tanaka.
ISBN:
9781773064840
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Publication Information:
Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
100 pages : black and white illustrations ; 30 cm
General Note:
Translation of: La grosse laide.
Translated from the French.
Chiefly illustrations.
"First published in French in 2019 by Les Editions XYZ inc"--Page opposite title page.
Summary:
"A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards."-- Provided by publisher.
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Decoding demand: 79 (high) Semantic demand: 95 (very high) Syntactic demand: 60 (medium) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile
Audience:
HL550L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1156716529
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