The narrator of this Governor General's Award-winning novel does not have a name. She is simply a grotesque "fat woman," getting larger every day--a clown, a monster, in her own words, with no self, no identity save her enormous mound of flesh, its blubber, its perceived deformity. She is used by men who find her a convenience--for their careers, for a sympathetic ear, for someone to screw. No one thinks she understands anything. She feels displaced...