This novel is set in the semi-future where youth and thinness has become the new religion, pushing all other religions underground. Leading this new religion is Reverend Earl who preaches about the Afterfat, where you eat whatever you want and still look like a Greek god. The narrative itself focuses on several characters Annie, an anorexic, and her friend Kelly, who are imprisoned in a religious convent for people with eating disorders, It also follows middle-aged Jeremy who discovers that Sylphania, Reverend Earl's exclusive weight-loss spa is a concentration camp where failure to lose weight and tone up leads to brutal punishment. And hidden under all of this lies a world of teen competitive eating contests, fat porn, and where an underground railroad of rebellious religions.
I originally saw this book on a science fiction display and thought that it sounded like an interesting read. After reading I still think it's an interesting idea, but I feel that it wasn't as good as I would have liked it to be. My first problem with the book was the pacing, some parts of it just seemed unnecessary and really only added onto the overall length. My other complaint with this book was deciding whether or not it actually glorified eating disorders or not which I can't really discuss without spoiling certain parts. Over all it was kind of interesting, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.
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