DUMPLIN’ by Judy
Murphy
This book is not PC.
A teenage girl is called Dumplin’ by her mother who constantly reminds
her how fat she is and how pretty she would be if she just lost some
weight.
Dumplin’ and her friends decide to enter the beauty contest
Dumplin’s mother runs and had won many years before. Hilarity runs rampant as
the young women (one fat, one disabled, one perhaps autistic and one gay)
prepare their talent acts and wardrobes.
This could have been awful. It was not. It becomes a
sensitive and empathetic tale of young women learning to love themselves and
accept others. Oh, and there is also a gentle
love story. This would be great book for a mother/parent book club.
4 of 5 stars
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