Food, girls and other things I can’t have is a thoughtful book about Andrew the second fattest boy in his sophomore year at high school. Andrew begins this book worrying about his weight, his status in school and the girl he has fallen for at the end of summer vacation. Andrew completely embarrasses himself (and injures several classmates) while trying to impress April on the soccer field. Andrew is then mysteriously rescued from the school bully by the school’s top jock. Andrew is recruited onto the football team and leaves his friends and the model UN behind. Andrew then spends a turbulent few weeks trying to hide the fact that he is playing football from his mother and at the same time trying to navigate his quickly rising school status and the mystery of why he has become so popular all of a sudden.
Food, girls and other things I can’t have gives the reader an inside look of what it is like to be fat in high school and many of the social and psychological implications of it. Andrew is continuously tormented by thoughts of weather people are making fun of him or if they are trying to use him in some way and he also has to decide which group of friends he wants to hang out with and who to trust as his after school activities change.
Allen Zadoff (2009) Food, girls and other things I can’t have, New York: Egmont.
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