In subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

Irish Times

Honest, searing, and necessary... 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl peels back the curtain on the struggles of entering womanhood from body image, to relationships, to merely navigating the oh-so-cruel world

Elle

Awad deftly captures the many indignities that she – that women – experience around food and weight... Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning

Washington Post

Shocking, sad, important and tender; this is a powerful rollercoaster of a read

Daily Mail

[A] clever debut... The themes may be sobering but Awad examines them with a deliciously wry humour

Mail on Sunday

The sharpness of Awad's humour, incorporates scathing cultural commentary as well as creating, through acidic wit, a credible internal landscape for her tormented protagonist.

Sydney Morning Herald