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Big Girl by Steel, Danielle is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Big Girl about?
SUMMARY: In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.В В В В A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterвЂTMs looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of VictoriaвЂTMs perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as “our tester cake.” With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.В В В While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherвЂTMs belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only brief
Who reads Big Girl?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Steel, Danielle
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.49 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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