Fat Chance, Charlie Vega Format:Paperback Charlie Vega is a lot

Charlie Vega is a lot of things

Chang left for New York City

environmental activist Wangari Maathai

his former crime partner—collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Century—relate the shocking stories of their shared pasts

fighting against his own people

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega Format:Paperback Charlie Vega is a lotComing of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but its hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesnt help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about