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"Fat girls have fewer choices in life. This is painful but true. You'll never be the center of attention; never the belle of the ball. No one gives fat girls the benefit of the doubt. Skinny, pretty girls get the best of everything. We get whatever's left."
So warns the mother of Wilma "Sunnie" Sundstrom, a bright, precocious, overweight 13-year-old whose lifelong dream is to meet her idol, Johnny Carson, and appear as a guest on The Tonight Show. The year is 1978 and Sunnie, a straight-A student and aspiring filmmaker, deals with constant teasing from her eighth-grade classmates by dreaming of Hollywood accolades and writing a screenplay, Girl on the Lam, which she is certain will star teen sensations Kristy McNichol and Robby Benson.
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Following a serious automobile accident, 17-year-old Branda Raggan awakens in the hospital a stranger within her own skin. Therapy for her injuries has little effect, so the doctors send her home with her mother, Margaret, a hard-drinking, tough-talking former country-and-western singer who runs the local tavern, The Bloody Mary, above which she and Branda make their home.
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Tranby Quirke has spent her life being invisible. She is a spinster: a fact that, in 1909 at the age of thirty-four, is practically synonymous with being dead. Her days are spent toiling in obscurity, lecturing to modern women—mainly to please old-fashioned men—on subjects ranging from Removing Dry Rot to Proper Cutlery Positioning.
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Bright, self-confident, redheaded Rainey McBride is born in a crowded locker room after a basketball game. Abandoned by her teenage mother, to be raised in the Midwest by stern Scandinavian grandparents, her longing for love and affection is fulfilled by her exotic second cousin Ambrose Torsten Dienst, a stylish, wealthy, would-be Danish prince embodying all the grace and glamour missing from Rainey's stolid suburban life.
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