Eating My Feelings

✍ Scribed by Rosenberg, Mark

• Book ID: 107495312
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 192 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385347815

✦ Synopsis

New from the author of Blackouts and Breakdowns --and in the tradition of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Chelsea Handler--a collection of funny essays skewering the author's struggles with weight and body image, both as a kid in the 1980s and as a gay man in the 2000s.

Mark Rosenberg has had more ups and downs with his weight than Oprah--but unlike Oprah, no one gives a Sh*t. Coming of age very outrageously as an overweight, soon-to-be gay kid, he learns to relate to others by way of his beloved Melrose Place and Clueless --which serves him well when exiled to fat camp and faced with an opportunity to bribe an adulterous counselor or poison his stepmother by birthday cake--and thinks nothing of dressing as Homey the Clown (in blackface) for Halloween. This sets him up for adulthood in the image-obsessed world of gay men in New York City, where he hires personal trainers he wants to sleep with, applies an X-rated twist to Julie & Julia in an...