Low-Fat Love: 10th Anniversary Edition

“This definitive 10th anniversary edition of Low-Fat Love does not disappoint. The new ending is brilliant. I would run, not stroll, to get a copy for yourself and all the important people in your life. This beautiful and relatable novel offers smart critique of how pop culture’s expectations for intimate relationships often let us down.” – Sandra L. Faulkner, Ph.D., author of Real Women Run

“Sometimes, when I read an especially wonderful book, I say to myself, “I wish I had written that!” That is precisely how I felt the first time I read Low-Fat Love. Truth be told, I loved itbecause it creates a fictional world that, for better or worse, mirrors the one we live in. I could identify with each character and their issues: loneliness, self-doubt, longing, and the desire to be all that we fear we are not. This is the stuff of life and yet so many of us struggle with these things on our own, fearing we are the only ones who feel this way. Maybe that’s why I love this book so much; it lets us know we are not alone. Low-Fat Love is a raw, honest, authentic, and compassionately rendered novel about appearance versus reality, the gap between who we are and who we wish to be, and the damage we do to each other and ourselves when we settle in life and love. But it’s so much more. It’s also a reminder that we can change the audio feed in our heads, we can reimagine ourselves, and indeed, we can remake our lives day by day. As we follow the characters on their journeys of self-discovery, we are called upon to reflect on our own. What do we see when we look in the mirror? What audio is running in our heads? Do we feel worthy? And perhaps most of all, what does it truly mean to live a big life? This newly revised edition is a brilliant tour de force, and indeed, the must-read version of this book. Leavy’s brand-new ending has breathed fresh life into the story and bowled me over, the last words lingering in my mind.” — Laurel Richardson, Ph.D., author of Lone Twin