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Entertainment Weekly – Bustle – Amazon – Women s National Book Association – Kirkus Reviews – BookPage – Kobo – LitReactor Audacious and gutsy and heartbreaking — Dietland completely blew me away. — Jennifer Weiner The diet revolution is here. And it s armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. But when a mysterious woman in colorful tights and combat boots begins following her, Plum falls down a rabbit hole into the world of Calliope House — an underground community of women who reject society s rules — and is forced to confront the real costs of becoming beautiful. At the same time, a guerilla group begins terrorizing a world that mistreats women, and Plum becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive. A giddy revenge fantasy that will shake up your thinking and burrow under your skin (Entertainment Weekly), Dietland takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight-loss obsession — with fists flying.