Fat Chance

Fat Chance by Angela Crook Belinda "Bebe" Jones thinks she has it all. After years of hard work and even harder choices, she has worked her way out of the hood, and into Cleveland's middle class. She has a successful career, a devoted son, and enough money in the bank to ensure that her son will never know her struggles firsthand. But now she realizes that somewhere along the way the girl who set out to conquer the world has chosen to eat it instead. When she looks in the mirror, instead of seeing the svelte girl she remembers, it looks as if a fat stranger has swallowed her whole, leaving only her familiar eyes to peer out from inside. For longer than she cares to think about, Bebe has been ignoring her own needs while she has taken care of her son, looked out for her sister Maria, who is always involved in one drama after another, and served as a sounding board for her best friend, Navah. When Bebe receives an email from her first love, her secret loneliness is revealed and she, with a little help from Navah and Maria, set out to reclaim her life, along with her body, as she searches for the one thing that money can't buy----love.

Author: Angela Crook
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 02/21/2016
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781517212407
About the Author
Angela Watts is a novelist and mother, loves writing dark thrillers that often involve the exploration of the inner workings of family relationships. She grew up splitting her time between Cleveland, Ohio and Selma, Alabama, where she used her love of reading to escape the scorching heat. As soon as she was able, she escaped to the United States Air Force, where she spent 10 years traveling the world. After her service in the Air Force, she returned to Cleveland, then Yonkers, NY, then Cleveland again, then Charlotte, NC, and back to Cleveland again, where she hopped from one job to the next searching in vain for that job that would give her a sense of accomplishment. In 2001, after a bad breakup with a bad boyfriend, Angela sat down and started writing and never looked back. She currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her 12-year-old aspiring artist son and 2 very frisky tabbies, Dash-B and Navi. There, with the support of her writer's group of three other fabulous up and comers (the Lliterary Llamas) she is always working on her next great story.