Local writer Tommy Tomlinson will be talking about his upcoming memoir, “The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America,” at a free event at ImaginOn, 300 E. 7th Street, on Thursday, February 7th, 2019, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Although the event is free you do need to reserve your seats.
The evening will begin with wine and light bites, and local bookseller Park Road Books will be onsite with books for sale before and after the program.
During the program Tommy will speak and take questions about his experience and his writing.
This event is presented in partnership with WFAE 90.7
About the book:
In the tradition of Roxane Gay’s Hunger, a searing, honest, and candid exploration of what it’s like to live as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who decided he had to change his life as he neared the age of fifty weighing in at 460 pounds.
When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change.
He was only one of millions of Americans struggling with weight, body image, and a relationship with food that puts them at major risk. Intimate and insightful, The Elephant in the Room is Tomlinson’s chronicle of meeting those people, taking the first steps towards health, and trying to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point.
From buying a FitBit and setting an exercise goal to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery that is a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take—big and small—to lose weight by the end.
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lucia cronin says
I love that the advertisements for Tommy’s book on his overweightedness
are those huge pizzas!!