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[such_heights]

Hi all,

Am looking for resources for a couple of friends of mine, and was wondering if any of you have some links/suggestions off the top of your head!

1. I am looking for novels that feature positive portrayals of women who aren't thin.

2. I am looking for resources to help someone who's currently in a pretty bad pit of depression but having trouble articulating that and reaching out. That sounds all too familiar to me, but I don't recommend my own strategy of going and going until you snap. Anything about first reaching out for professional support or recognising that's what happening is an illness and not a moral failing would be most welcome.

♥!

Comments

[filomena]

Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me has a deeply sympathetic portrayal of an obese woman with an anorexic husband. In fact, she's the most likeable character in the novel, and probably the one the reader is intended to identify with most. Food concerns play a big role in the story, obviously, but there's also a lot of stuff about intimacy and sex and tenderness that just don't tend to come up in connection with fat characters. (The story as a whole isn't just about them, but this is the part of the book I remember best.)

[such_heights]

Oh cool, that sounds really interesting. Thanks!