CAMP UTOPIA & THE FORGIVENESS DIET
Title: Camp
Utopia and the Forgiveness DietGenre: Young
AdultAuthor:
Jenny RudenPublisher:
Koehler BooksLanguage:
EnglishPages: 300Format:
Paperback
Sixteen-year-old
Baltimore teen Bethany Stern knows the only way out of spending her
summer at Camp Utopia, a fat camp in Northern California, is
weight-loss. Desperate, she tries The Forgiveness Diet, the latest
fad whose infomercial promises that all she has to do is forgive her
deadbeat dad, her scandalous sister, and the teenage magician next
door and (unrequited) love of her life. But when the diet fails and
her camp nemesis delivers the ultimate blow, Bee bids sayonara to
Camp-not-Utopian-at-all to begin what she believes will be her “real”
summer adventure, only to learn that running away isn’t as easy—or
as healing—as it seems.
Her
wry and honest voice bring humor and poignancy for anyone, fat or
thin, tired of hearing “you’d be so pretty if…[insert unwelcome
judgment about your appearance from loved one or perfect stranger].”
ABOUT
JENNY RUDEN
Jenny
Ruden has published short stories and essays in Nerve, Salon,
Eclectica Magazine, Literary Mama and High Desert Journal. She won an
Orlando award for creative nonfiction, was named a finalist in
Glimmertrain’s short fiction contest, and has been nominated for
the Pushcart prize two years in a row. She has worked with teenagers
for over ten years as a teacher of Reading, Writing and GED, and has
an MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon. She lives with her
husband, two daughters, two basset hounds and cat in Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
She
does a flawless impersonation of a normal person. Don’t be fooled.
She’s a writer.
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