“Dumplin’” and the Fat Female Protagonist

IN JULIE MURPHY’S 2015 young adult novel Dumplin’, a self-described “cashier, Dolly Parton enthusiast, and resident fat girl” named Willowdean does not want to be called “Dumplin” anymore — not by her beauty queen mother Rosie, and definitely not at school, where bullies like Patrick Thomas are poised to make her time in high school […]

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