The Girl in the Gold Bikini

It wasn't until Dana Goldstein was 40 years old that she started to realize she no longer had to live by someone else's terms. And it was around that same time that she began to recognize that yes, she was funny, and yes, people really did like her. Dana has had a book brewing inside her since the 9th grade, when her English teacher told her she should think about being a journalist. That's exactly what she did. Over the next 20 years, the people in her life have come and gone and her careers have changed almost as often as her hair colour. But one thing remained constant: a horrible reliance on food, particularly chips and ice cream, to get her through everything life had to throw at her. This book tells the story of that on-again-off-again relationship with snacks, and the crazy misadventures (and sometimes heartbreaking events) that moved her through every clothing size on the rack.