A tender, funny, and luminous book about obesity and eating disorders among youths.

It's hard to lose weight when you love eating and dream of opening a restaurant someday. But for 15-year-old Benjamin, the nurse's diagnosis leaves no room for doubt: "Class 2 Obesity." Serious words to describe what till now has simply seemed like the physical evidence of an appetite for life. Exercise, parties, changing booths, swimming, dieting--nothing's easy when you're big and afraid of how other people see you. And as if all that weren't enough, romance enters the picture...