She's hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves or benefit from the body positivity movement, and unless she takes drastic action, the future looks dire.īut when Ruby's buried rage explodes in a hilariously viral way, the mistake has life-altering consequences. Pearl is still living in her mother's fixer-upper and finds herself facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison. The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Pearl and Ruby's choices drove them apart.įinding their way back to each other might be the only way forward. A solid entry for titles with plus-sized heroines." - Library Journal "An insightful and empathetic view into the daily struggles of living with obesity. "Readers will be eager for more." - Booklist
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