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|  New in paperback: Stephanie McAfee’s ‘Diary of a Mad Fat Girl’
Quote: New in paperback: Stephanie McAfee’s ‘Diary of a Mad Fat Girl’
Stephanie McAfee’s Diary of a Mad Fat Girl (NAL, $15) offers a fascinating tale, but not between its covers. The girl-buddy cape, starring a sassy, overweight Mississippi teacher, brims with local color but is burdened by too much plot and too little nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers — Jennifer Weiner ...
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