Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 writers explore themes as diverse as self perception, body image, fashion, fat activism, food, ...

Do you long to dive deeper into the Bible, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you struggle to really get into God's word, because there are a hundred other things competing for your attention. Reading the Bible isn't always easy. It can feel boring and confusing. It can seem irrelevant to real life. But just because something is challenging, doesn't mean it's not worth your time. Sometimes the hardest things in life also turn out to be the best things. The Bible is the story of God. I...

"Heartbreakingly detailed . . . vibrant—and vital" prize-winning stories by an Australian contributor to The New Yorker ( Entertainment Weekly).In this "coolly exact . . . sharp, evocative and often poetic" collection of award-winning short fiction, Cate Kennedy daringly travels to the deepest depths of the human psyche to explore the collision between simmering inner lives, the cold outside world, and the hidden motivations that propel u...

Do you long to dive deeper into the Bible, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you struggle to really get into God's Word, because there are a hundred other things competing for your attention. Reading the Bible isn't always easy. It can feel boring and confusing. It can seem irrelevant to real life. But just because something is challenging, doesn't mean it's not worth your time. Sometimes the hardest things in life also turn out to be the best things. The Bible is the story of God. I...