Fat Girl, Terrestrial: A Novel

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Fat girl, terrestrial FC2 TUSCALOOSA KELLIE WELLS a novel Fat girl, terrestrial Copyright © 2012 by Kellie Wells The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America FC2 is an imprint of The University of Alabama Press BookDesign:IllinoisStateUniversity’sEnglishDepartment’sPublications Unit; Director: Tara Reeser; Assistant Director: Steve Halle; Production Assistant: Jeremy Boehme Cover Design: Lou Robinson Typeface: Baskerville Illustration credits appear on page 373 ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wells, Kellie, 1962Fat girl, terrestrial : a novel / by Kellie Wells. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-57366-170-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-57366-833-0 (electronic) I. Title. PS3623.E47F38 2012 813’.6—dc23 2012013930 For Janie, thin girl, celestial and Tom, my autumn, my mugwump Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? —Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” ...