Fat Chance, Charlie Vega is a good book by author Crystal Maldonado.
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega addresses our relationships with our parents, our bodies, our culture, and ourselves.
Charlie Vega is a lot of things.
People sometimes have problems with the last one. Charlie wants to have a good relationship with her body, but it’s hard, and her mom letting even weight loss rates on her wardrobe doesn’t help. Everyone in there has an opinion on what the job looks like: thinner, lighter, slimmer face, straighter hair. Less. Whiter.
There’s one person always in Charlie’s corner: her best friend, Amelia. Slender. Famous. Strong. When Charlie begins a tentative relationship with his cute friend Brian, the first worthy guy to notice her, it’s all over when she learns one thing – he fell in love with Amelia first. Is she his second choice? Did he really see her?
