First: Thank you to all the powerful, fierce fat girls and femmes who are taking the world by storm. Addie is the person I wish I could have been as a fat teenager.

It’s not your job and never should have been, but you are the kids who are changing the world, and we don’t deserve you.

Thank you always to the wonderful Marianna Baer and Lynn Weingarten, for making this book everything it was meant to be.

The bits of this book I managed could not have been written without Shyamala Parthasarathy, Loren Taylor, and Meagan Black. Thank you for the yelling, the brainstorming, the writing sessions, for being on my side. I love your brilliant amazing bonkers brains and you.

Thank you to Kate Farrell at Holt, who loves Addie as much as I do, and whose insight made this a better book in every way.

Thank you to Cheryl Pientka for always having my back.

Thank you to all the folks at Holt who helped make the final product perfect: Sarah Chassé, Lelia Mander, and Jie Yang. Any mistakes in the book are mine.

Thank you to Liz Dresner, Mallory Grigg, and to the amazingly talented Prashanti Aswani for the stunning cover that made me cry.

Thank you to the talented writers and friends who inspire me, give me space to write and space to complain and space to be myself, including Tania de Rozario, Rachel Hartman, Karen Meisner, Monique van den Berg, and Yilin Wang; to grad school friends both silver and gold; and to all my imaginary internet friends, from the OLJ crowd to the newest of palm-top computer friends. Thank you for being hilarious, for being the kind of people I look up to, for cheering me on even when I’ve felt like I didn’t deserve it, and for keeping me sane in a world that is less so.

And finally, thank you to brilliant, extraordinary Kelsey, who makes it all worthwhile and tells the worst jokes. I love you always.

I made it! And I believe in you too.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jen Larsen is the critically acclaimed author of multiple books, including the young adult novel Future Perfect. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, with her wife.

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