Overview

Sometimes Yasmin doesn't feel at home in her body. And it's not just because puberty has mounted a full-on alien invasion, or that emigrating from Iran a year and a half ago has meant one change after another. It's also because her mother constantly pushes her to lose weight, like sewing Yasmin a beautiful blue dress for Persian New Year that is too tight on purpose. At school, it doesn't help that Yasmin's best friend, Carmen, is petite and close to her own mother, or that popular-girl Zoe always has a mean comment to spare. Yasmin is sure her crush, Jack, won't ever like her the way she is, either. With the pressure to fit in closing in on all sides, Yasmin starts taking desperate measures. But if being thin is supposed to make her happier, then why does losing weight feel like losing parts of herself, too? From debut author Rebecca Morrison comes a heart-rending, humorous, and ultimately hopeful book inspired by her own life, relatable to anyone who has ever needed to break away from someone else's vision of how they should look in order to embrace their true self.

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""A successful intervention helps Yasmin break more than one unhealthy cycle and begin loving herself for exactly who she is."" --Booklist

Author Information

Rebecca Morrison is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Today, NBC News, Salon, HuffPost, and Newsweek, among others. She was born in Iran, immigrated to the United States in her teens, and now calls the Washington, DC, area her home. The Blue Dress is her debut novel. You can find her at rebeccakmorrison.com.

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