“ The only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they’re miserable with themselves or if they’re the jolly best friend. Not your usual opening for a coming of age young adult novel. At the start Willowdean is already a confident, happy girl who has a best friend, a part time job and seems to be coping just fine with High School. We were going to meet Willowdean, she was going to enter a beauty pageant, she was going to win said pageant, and the good looking boy whilst overcoming various hurdles along the way.Įxcept that wasn’t Dumplin’. I started this book thinking I already knew the ending. Along the way, she ll shock the hell out of Clover City and maybe herself most of all. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant along with several other unlikely candidates to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any girl does. Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.
Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked.
Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed Dumplin by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. We review the book that sparked the Netflicks film – Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy. Beauty pageants, red lolly pops and lashes of Dolly Parton.
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