Instead, she does the unthinkable-she falls in love. But Lei isn't content to watch her fate consume her. Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king's consort. Now, the guards are back, and this time it's Lei they're after-the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king's interest. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her. In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. And instead of paper, she's made of fire. It's the highest honor they could hope for.and the most cruel.īut this year, there's a ninth girl. With each pound lost, they edge deeper into obsession and instability.until they decide to take matters into their own hands.Įach year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. The women soon discover that the filmmakers have trapped them in a cruel experiment. The catch? They must agree to always be on camera afterward, the world will see Waisted: The Documentary. Located in a remote Vermont mansion, the program promises fast, dramatic weight loss, and Alice, Daphne, and five other women are desperate enough to leave behind their families for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Alice, break-up skinny when she met her husband, risks losing her marriage if she keeps gaining weight. Scales terrify them.ĭaphne, plump in a family of model-thin women, learned only slimness earns admiration at her mother’s knee. In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers.Īlice and Daphne, both successful and accomplished working mothers, harbor the same secret: obsession with their weight overshadows concerns about their children, husbands, work-and everything else of importance in their lives.
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