Her debut novel, Fat Girl on a Plane, named one of the "50 Best Summer Reads of All Time" by Reader's Digest magazine, is available now from HarperCollins. When not reading or writing, Kelly can typically be found with a mocha in hand, bingeing the latest TV shows and adding to her ever-growing sticker collection. in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. deVos smartly scrutinizes the impacts of diet culture while humanizing those it hurts the most.Kelly deVos is from Gilbert, Arizona, where she lives with her high school sweetheart husband, amazing teen daughter and superhero dog, Cocoa. Along with being a page-turning horror romp, the novel provides a smart and incisive mystery about what the corporation that runs the camp is doing to its campers, and the ways in which it abuses fat people. With other campers disappearing, or transforming altogether, and no staff or outside help to turn to, Vivian and her friends will have to figure out how to survive it together.Įat Your Heart Out mashes up the best tropes of scary ’80s classics and zombie movies with the unique body diversity of fat characters rarely seen in the action or horror genre.
It doesn’t take long for the campers to come together and realize that something strange is happening at the camp. Once settled in their bunks, they’re instructed to eat a green bar for weight loss as part of an experiment, which other campers proclaim makes them lose tens of pounds overnight. Once they arrive at the camp, things already seem awry as they encounter a loose animal in the woods-which seems anything other than natural. Rachel, the Outcast, is hiding an even bigger secret than the rest of them from her preacher father. Smentkowski, the Nerd, is so smart that he may be the downfall of them all. Ali, the Basket Case, aspires to be a filmmaker and wants to make a documentary to end the camp forever. Paul, the Jerk, is the son of the camp’s owner and a secret spy for his dad. Steve, the Jock, or perhaps the Courageous Captain, is the camp counselor who needs money but doesn’t buy into the camp’s mission. Vivian, the Action Girl, is the fearless captain of her soccer team and the de facto leader of the group. The novel is told in a unique alternating point-of-view format, focusing on each character who serves as an archetype from a stereotypical teen movie.
Imagine your favorite ‘80s teen zombie movie set at an elite fat camp and you’re getting close to the smart, funny, and scary Eat Your Heart Out. Fat camp stories have seemingly been done to death (pun intended), but Kelly deVos’s latest, Eat Your Heart Out, gives diet culture a horrifying new satirical spin.
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