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Jenni has been studying FAT: The Different F Phrase by Dan Radlauer
Dan Radlauer’s debut novel, FAT: The Different F Phrase opens in media res on a casting name for a noodle business. Teenager Quincy Collins, our protagonist and narrator, is ready for his likelihood to slurp and smile for the digicam, simply one in every of many little one actors chasing a dream in Hollywood.
The kicker?
Quincy is fats.
Not ‘Hollywood fats’, fat-fat, and has constructed his total, fledgling profession as a comedic actor round his weight and making the fats joke first. Being the ‘fats, humorous child’ has introduced Quincy common work in commercials, and simply landed him a starring function in a model new sitcom alongside Jessica Freeland, one in every of L.A.’s hottest rising starlets.
Certain Quincy has bother getting off of overly-plush couches, doesn’t have many pals in school, and hides his midnight snacking from his household, however that is his massive break! Nothing can get in his method!
However when a shock, pre-diabetic prognosis has Quincy’s physician perscribing a more healthy weight loss plan and common train, what’s a younger man to do? And extra importantly, who does the ‘fats, humorous child’ turn out to be, if he’s now not fairly so fats?
Keep tuned to seek out out!
I joke partially as a result of this can be a very humorous guide, Radlauer has a deft and intelligent contact when is involves Quincy’s internal monologue, however don’t let that idiot you into considering that FAT: The Different F Phrase is all sugar and no substance. Radlauer has labored in show-business for many years, composing for cult classics like 1991’s The Addams Household (a private favourite) and big-budget motion flicks like 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. So, when Radlauer writes concerning the pressures and politics of Hollywood, the undue burdens positioned on younger actors to behave a sure method each on and off-camera, and the sunburn that may accompany the highlight, it rings true.
Neither is Quincy’s wrestle to get wholesome an in a single day transformation. Quincy has spent his total, younger life making a joke out of himself and his weight and he’s not completely certain he desires to lose that. The bodily wrestle to maintain to his perscribed routine, and the psychological wrestle to outline who Quincy is to himself and the remainder of the world pair and juxtapose properly because the scenes change and the story progesses.
Rounded out by a unbelievable supporting solid, together with the beforehand talked about Jessica Freeland, and Radlauer has a really great, heartfelt coming of age story on his arms.
5/5
In “FAT: The Different ‘F’ Phrase,” Quincy Collins lives in two vastly completely different worlds. One the place he’s a really heavy and awkward freshman at Beverly Hills Excessive Faculty, the opposite the place he’s a Hollywood character actor in commercials and Indie movies enjoying the comedian reduction or the despicable bully. Guess which world he likes higher?
At the beginning of this Y.A. novel, Quincy will get his massive break with a serious function as “The Fats Brother” in a sizzling new Community Sitcom, solely to seek out that wanting and having are two very various things.
First, “measurement discrimination activists” problem the integrity of the character he’s portraying. Then his well being struggles start to undermine each his character on the present, and his self-assigned model as “The Fats Child Actor.” His dream gig turns into a nightmare, and he begins to query the function he’s enjoying on TV, in addition to in actual life.“FAT: The Different ‘F’ Phrase” exhibits a novel particular person in a novel setting.It explores Hollywood, adolescence,and our tradition’s attitudes in the direction of completely different sized individuals.Quincy narrates the story with discovery, irony, ache and compassion as he learns that he can’t base his id on the dimensions of his physique.
