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An amazing set of short stories, an essay, an interview, and a knock-your-socks-off novelette presented by the new to me author Meg EEEElison. The thin-is-in-gone-wrong centerpiece “The Pill�� was phenomenal. It's what could have happened if The Doctor (#10 is #1 in my books) and Donna did not stop Adipose Industries from pushing its lethal diet pills on everyone. Lindy West and Ray Bradbury would be proud. “Gone with Gone with the Wind�� is an uneasy but perspicacious essay using the framework of reading books at a particular stage of your life and how re-reading them later holds a mirror up to show how you have changed and how far you may still have to go. “Such People in It�� is straight up dystopian Atwood-esque. Meg definitely has a razor sharp voice of her own and I inhaled this book in one sitting. Thx for the rec, Gojira. 

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She’d try putting the whole family on a diet, talk us into taking ‘family walks�� in the evening. She’d throw out all the junk food and make us promise to love ourselves more. (Loving yourself means crying over the scale every morning and then sniffling into half a grapefruit, right?).