![]() ![]() Often considered one of Chris Crutcher's strongest novels, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes was published in 1993 and won several awards, including the Joan Fassler Memorial Award, the ALAN Award for Contributions to Young Adult Literature, and the California Young Reader Medal. Along the way, he falls in love with his dream girl, fights with her ex, and looks at religion in a whole new way. It's up to her only friend, Eric, to find out whether he can make her talk again. She's had them since she was 3 years old, but one day, during her senior year of high school, she stops talking completely and is taken in for psychiatric treatment. ![]() Sarah Byrnes's face is mostly third-degree burn scars. From the back cover: What do you get when you throw together one of the ugliest human beings outside a circus and the fattest boy in high school? Two kids with the "terminal uglies" who are inseparable best friends. ![]()
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