Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been friends since they met at "fat camp" as teenagers. Life has taken the three of them down very different paths, but they still have one thing in common - a struggle with their weight. Sadly, Emerson passes away due to weight-related issues. Marley and Georgia are devastated that they let so much time pass since they saw Emerson and vow to honor her final request. Complete the list of things that they vowed to do if they ever became skinny. Things like eat dessert in public, get a piggy-back ride from a cute guy and tell off somebody who had an issue with you being fat. The list seems simple enough, but both Marley and Georgia struggle with a healthy body image. Marley, a Personal Chef, seems to be happy but has never been in a real relationship. Georgia has recently lost a lot of weight but still has yet to receive the approval from her family that she desperately craves. But with each the other there to cheer them on the two friend start to come to grips with their weight issues and how those issues are preventing them both from seeing what they are - truly great women. Will Marley and Georgia be able to finish Emerson's list? Will they ever come to terms with their body issues and the weight issues that have plagued them for nearly their whole lives?
I don't think that there has ever been a book that has resonated with me as much as Good Luck With That. The book's theme of body positivity and the three women who struggle with their weight is a topic near and dear to my heart. It is something that I struggle with every single day. And I have never read a book that hits on the topic with such insight and accuracy. I think Marley was the character that I connected with the most. Her happy-go-lucky demeanor hid the pain from losing her twin sister. And she was so desperate to be loved that she let her brother's colleague use her in degrading ways. Over and over again. I absolutely loved her connection with Will Harding and loved his imperfections. Georgia's relationship with her family, well her mother and brother, had me on the verge of tears several times. They had both deemed her unworthy when she was overweight and she was constantly aching for their approval. Even though they were both assholes. When she shares about her marriage, my heart ached for her. The years of abuse she suffered at her family's hands was clearly the reason why her marriage imploded, but sadly she didn't see it that way. As with all Kristan Higgins novels, I found myself laughing out loud more than once, and I found myself a bit sad to get to the end of the book. These were not characters that I was ready to let go.
Bottom Line - Kristan Higgins is an author who gets it. Through her characters she lets her legions of readers know that she gets what it is like to struggle with a positive body image. You don't have to read too far into Good Luck With That to know that Kristan Higgins knows what it is like to long for happiness, love, and acceptance. Something that many of us can relate to in very real ways. In the end, Marley and Georgia find the happiness, love, and acceptance they so desperately want, but not in ways they expected.
Details:
- Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins
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- Pages: 480
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Date: 8/7/18
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