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Michelle Embree
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April 20, 2006Michelle
Embree grew up in a suburb of St. Louis, where the experience of a
working class upbringing first rooted itself as the inspiration for her
writing. She worked for several years in sandwich shops and mall stores
before moving on to small, classically oriented McKendree College where
she earned her BA in Sociology and Philosophy. She has published
articles on philosophy, media, and feminism and has recently ceased
production of the cult favorite fiction zine A Zillion Chronicles of
Near Love. Embree proudly resides in New Orleans and is currently
working on her second novel. She steadfastly refuses to wear anything
besides mini-skirts.
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Manstealing for Fat Girls
(2006) -- Finalist 2005 Lambda Literary Award for
Lesbian Debut Fiction
This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely
not part of the in crowd: one’s fat, one’s a dyke, and one is missing a
breast. Nicknamed "Lezzylard" by her classmates, Angie is seduced by the
prettiest girl in school, an anorexic who just wants to make imaginary grocery
lists. Inez, the school’s pot dealer, can’t shoplift because security guards
are mesmerized by her single enormous breast. Shelby and Angie can’t be
together, because then everyone will think Angie’s only a dyke because she’s
too fat to get a guy. Manstealing for Fat Girls explodes the locus where
patriarchal and class violence intersect, while embracing all that is magical
— and dangerous — about adolescence. Set in a working class suburb of St.
Louis in the 1980s, the book is replete with music and pop culture references
of the era, but the bullying, lunch table treachery, and desperate desire to
fit in ring true for every generation.
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