✨ Our Fat Forward Book Club August Pick ✨

✨ Our Fat Forward Book Club August Pick ✨

Thank you everyone for supporting the first two months of Fat Forward Book Club! We held a poll to determine our August pick (which is currently a perk just for Discord members that will eventually be just for $5+ Fat Forward Pillar subscribers!) and following the vote...

Our August book is Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield!

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A 2025 Lambda Literary Finalist

A Stonewall Honor Book

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club LitUp Pick


In this debut YA speculative romance perfect for fans of Rachael Lippincott, two queer, disabled, Jewish teens find themselves stuck in a time loop--and falling love.


Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending--literally.

On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August 6ths since, Phoebe has relived the same day: pancakes with Mom in the morning, Scrabble with Dad in the afternoon, and constant research into how to reach tomorrow and make it to her appointment with a doctor who may actually take her IBS seriously. Everything is exactly, agonizingly the same.

That is, until the most mundane car crash ever sends Phoebe's childhood crush Jess crashing into the time loop.

Now also stuck, Jess convinces Phoebe to break out of her routine and take advantage of their consequence-free days to have fun. From splurging on concert tickets, to enacting (mostly) harmless revenge, to all-night road trips, Jess pulls Phoebe further and further out of her comfort zone--and deeper in love with them. But the more Phoebe falls for Jess, the more she worries about what's on the other side of the time loop. What if Jess is only giving her the time of day because they're trapped with no other options? What if Phoebe's new doctor dismisses her chronic pain? And perhaps worst of all: What if she never gets the chance to find out?

Chatham Greenfield is an award winning author and a born and raised Floridian. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, they were in the inaugural class of Reese’s Book Club’s LitUp fellowship.

Their debut novel Time and Time Again received a Stonewall Honor Award and was named a best queer book of the year by Autostraddle.

Their second novel, Try Your Worst, comes out September 2025 and their third novel, Like a Lady, comes out early 2027.

Fat Forward Book Club will meet Friday, August 15 at 8 p.m. ET/6p.m. PT to discuss Time and Time Again in the community Discord!

Meeting on the third Friday of every month at 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT via Discord, Fat Forward Book Club will read and discuss a variety of books by fat authors, about fat experiences, and/or featuring fat characters as determined by Fat Forward Pillars ($5 Bindery subscribers). We'll explore books across multiple genres and target audiences/age groups to discuss depictions of fatness in fiction and nonfiction, as well as how perceptions of fatness in the book world have changed or stayed the same in recent years.

All subscribers are invited to participate in monthly book club discussions! Fat Forward Pillars ($5 subscribers) have the opportunity to vote on each month's book club pick and to suggest future titles for consideration, among other additional perks. Please see the membership tab for details!

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