Fat shaming. It's so rooted in society and family that it often goes unnoticed. Sometimes, it wears the garb of concern - oh, you've put on so much weight; is everything okay? At other times, it's downright cruel.Ananya, the protagonist of Mirror, Mirror, faces the second kind. The words she hears echo through her head, making her recoil with disgust when she looks at herself in the mirror. Miss Piggy. Fat cow. How did she never notice how fat and ugly she was? How could she have thought it was okay?Mirror Mirror was pacy from start to end. That is something I love about Andaleeb Wajid's writing: her books make you keep turning the pages, not noticing when one chapter ends and another begins. I found that with When She Went Away, which I read three years ago, and then again with Mirror, Mirror. While fat-shaming forms the centre of the story, the narrative steers away from … [Read more...]