I felt it was a little too much for a YA book- it started to read a little bit like a psychology journal article.Īpart from the ineffectual therapist, Rita also deals with Arnold Bromberg, who has employed her at his cheesecake shop. It is this Strawberry that talks about fatness and feminism, and her sessions with Rita (who has now taken to calling herself Skylar Cunningham, because changing your name automatically makes you more desirable to rich people) are full of rhetoric about “two selves- a fat one, and a thin one”, eating to protect herself from growing up, and having to be “in competition” with her mother, and so much quasi-Freudian stuff.
This involves signing up to the local gym, starting a diet, and attending counselling sessions with one curiously named Dr Marsha Strawberry. Then one day when she’s out running errands with her mom, she sees Robert Swann- rich, blonde, tan, aloof, all the things teenagers in America seem to find irresistible- and determines to be the kind of girl he would like. Rita knows that she overeats, her parents are distressed about it, and she has given up on trying to do anything about it.
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