"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" ( Publishers Weekly ), a memoir for every woman who has ever tried to lose weight. Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. Unfortunately, she gained over half those pounds back. B...

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of Passing for Thin , Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim. He strides past her without a glimmer of recognitio...