CHAPTER 9
Everyone in Toronto, it seems, is in the self-help section of Chapman’s Book Store. Lary squeezes her way in front of the endless shelves of diets. Apparently sure-fire plans to drop those unwanted pounds number in the thousands. She starts pulling some out, making a pile.
She flips through The North Coast Diet, The Go Zone Diet, The PROtein ANTIcarb Diet, God’s Diet (Who knew God had to diet?), The Grapefruit Diet, The Banana Diet, The Cabbage Diet, The Rice Diet, The Cabbage and Rice Diet.
Lary remembers the diet she and her roommate had tried in their youth, the Jujube Diet. All you had to do was eat only jujubes all day, along with all the booze mixed with diet sodas you could consume. They were under the highly mistaken impression that each jujube contained only one calor
