In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl - Irish Times

Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour -- Katherine Heiny

A beautiful, necessary book -- Roxane Gay

Honest, searing, and necessary... 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl peels back the curtain on the struggles of entering womanhood from body image, to relationships, to merely navigating the oh-so-cruel world - Elle

Awad deftly captures the many indignities that she – that women – experience around food and weight... Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning - Washington Post

Shocking, sad, important and tender; this is a powerful rollercoaster of a read - Daily Mail

[A] clever debut... The themes may be sobering but Awad examines them with a deliciously wry humour - Mail on Sunday

Mona Awad was born in Montreal and now lives in the USA. A graduate of York University in Toronto, her debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, won the 2016 Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Arab American Book Award. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, TIME magazine, Electric Literature, VICE, The Walrus and elsewhere. Her second novel, Bunny, is also published by Head of Zeus.