This is a distinct, complex debut from a new voice in ya with an. Future perfect fairfax county public library overdrive. Jen larsen is a writer and editor living in ogden, ut. Insightful and unsparing in her selfexamination, larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating lows she experienced as a result of her weight. How weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head was not an easy book for me to read. One day, she decided that weight loss surgery was the only way she was going to lose weight and start living her life, because obviously everything would be fixed by losing weight. How weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head, which chronicles her own reallife journey with weightloss surgery. Stranger here book tulsa citycounty library bibliocommons. Theyve read their work in bookstores and community institutions, and participated in conferences at the local and national level. Jen larsen is the author of future perfect and stranger here. How weight loss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head, jen larsen recounts, in painful detail, the steps leading to the weight loss surgery which saw her lose 180 pounds. Author jen larsen is in studio to discuss her new book, stranger here. She was convinced that once she found a way to not be fat any more, she would have the perfect existence shed always dreamed of.
Larsen writes with candor about her struggles with weight, her decision to undergo weightloss surgery and the aftermath. I met jen larsen a few weeks ago at san franciscos booksmith when she was in town for a reading of her new book, stranger here. I got such a depressing vibe from the author throughout the entire book up until the epilogue. Jen larsen is the author of the widely acclaimed adult memoir stranger here. How weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head, by ogden resident jen larsen, is the straightforward, personal account of one womans battle with weight. Interview with jen larsen, author of stranger here. Stranger here tells the story of her weight loss journey and how she came to realise that being thin didnt fix everything. Stranger here is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one womans journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Jen larsen, author of the critically acclaimed memoir stranger here. Jen larsen is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, stranger here and ya novel, future perfect, and the upcoming ya novel, the big reveal. Larsens 20 adult memoir, stranger here, detailed her own experience with having weightloss surgery. Certainly, its about someone who lost a lot of weight through weightloss surgery, but the story isnt about pounds lost and foods ingested.
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Jen larsen loses weight, gains resentment since her teenage years, jen larsen was overweight. How weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head, published march 20 from seal books a member of the perseus books group. Stranger here paperback how weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head. How weight loss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head. Weight loss surgery wls is a highly charged topic, especially in fat activist community. She lives in vancouver, bc, with her wife and a menagerie. Oct 09, 2015 jen larsen, author of the critically acclaimed memoir stranger here. Writing the short story, writing the novel, writing the essay, writing the personal essay, writing the memoir, writing any and all of these things in any combination of a specific period of time, style, genre, and ultimate major life goal.
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How weight loss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head, and a. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading stranger here. She currently lives in minneapolis, mn with her partner and a vast menagerie. She has an mfa in creative writing from the university of san francisco and currently lives in vancouver, bc. Todays kind volunteer is jen larsen from ogden, utah. Jen larsens first book, entitled stranger here, about her own struggles with weight, was the perfect readers appetizer for this young adult novel, future perfect. Writing the short story, writing the novel, writing the essay, writing the. Jen larsen seemed so unhappy, not only before the surgery, but after it as well. Offers the authors experiences in going from obesity to having a slender figure by losing 180 pounds after having bariatric surgery, focusing on the confusion and emotional highs and lows that came with such a drastic change. She has an mfa in creative writing from the university of san francisco and currently lives in madison, wi. Jen larsen reads, writes, and generally avoids arithmetic. The 7 habits of highly effective people covey 2004. She was a subject of the oprah winfrey network tv show in deep shift with jonas elrod.
Mar 29, 20 today i speak with beloved blogger jen larsen, whose recentlypublished memoir stranger here details her experience losing almost 200 pounds via surgery and her discovery that weight loss is. In 2006, she underwent weight loss surgery and lost almost 200 pounds. Larsen has an mfa from the university of san francisco and currently writes in madison, wi. Six years later shes still trying to figure out what that means in terms of health and body acceptance, but feels lucky to have experienced the full spectrum of weight and size issues on either end of the scale. Jen larsen is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, stranger here.
Future perfect by jen larsen overdrive rakuten overdrive. Ive used the passive tense, because jens body seemed hellbent on shedding her excess weight despite her noncompliance with the postsurgery. Jen larsen s stranger here sounds like a weightloss memoir. The amazing book trailer for jen larsens new book, stranger here. Students and alumni of the mfa in writing program have published widely in multiple forms, including books, anthologies, journals, and websites. Jen larsen, author of the critically acclaimed memoir stranger here and a subject of the oprah winfrey network tv show in deep shift with jonas elrod, tells a liberating story of hardwon selfacceptancea tale of one girl, who knows that weight is just a number, and that no one is completely perfect. Six years later shes still trying to figure out what that means in terms of health and body acceptance, but feels lucky to have experienced the full. How weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head kindle edition by larsen, jen. How weightloss surgery transformed my body and messed with my head. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read stranger here. And recently she shared it in a big way, in her very own book.
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