Are you interested in joining a real conversation about contemporary societal issues? Join Real Lit Remote this Winter Quarter 2022 and discuss Crystal Maldonado's Fat Chance, Charlie Vega with the Center for Equity and Inclusion and the UW Tacoma Library. If you love to read and have conversations about the book, then Real Lit is the perfect place for you to find community!


ZOOM/BOOK COPY:
**Meetings will be completely remote, via Zoom: Thursdays 12:30-1:20 beginning 1/13.
** Zoom link will be forthcoming in early January
Please note: Real Lit is completely optional and you will not be graded. Students receive copies of books on a first-come, first-serve basis.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
"Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.

People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter.

But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing--he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her?

Because it's time people did.

A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves."


QUESTIONS?
Contact alainac@uw.edu or mailon@uw.edu or jmjk@uw.edu if you have questions.

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Zoom video sessions can be close-captioned. We will work with you for further disability accommodation.