Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

The first edition of the paper targeted one bully in particular, Dale Thornton. The title of the paper refers to Sarah Byrnes' scarred face and hands, a result of burns she received at the age of three, and Moby's excess body fat. Moby and Sarah Byrnes created a newspaper in junior high called Crispy Pork Rinds. Moby sees Sarah Byrnes everyday, talking to her about their escapades in junior high when they were both outcasts tortured by bullies who seemed to take special interest in the two of them. Moby does not know if Sarah Byrnes is faking but is determined to do all he can to make her okay again. Moby visits Sarah Byrnes, his best friend, in the hospital where she was taken after she quit speaking. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is about being an outcast, about friendship, and about standing up for what is right, even when it means betraying the trust of the one who has always been there. Moby does not know who he can trust but finds himself turning to the most unlikely people to find a way to protect his best friend. Now Sarah Byrnes needs Moby to be her strength like she was his in junior high.

Sarah Byrnes, a young woman disfigured by burns she received when she was three, has always been a friend to Moby even when his excess weight made him an outcast at school. Moby is a high school senior whose best friend, Sarah Byrnes, has been put in a hospital because she refuses to speak. 'My subject will be shame.Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is a young adult novel by writer Chris Crutcher. So,' Lemry says quietly, 'your subject will be the juxtaposition of man and God in the universe?'Įllerby shakes his head. Lemry better get a handle on this class before it turns into some kind of therapy group.

I feel tears welling up, and I see them running down Ellerby's cheeks. I was embarrassed that I haven't found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.' I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn't know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll get it from us. “From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us.

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher