{"product_id":"9798256370091","title":"DON'T LOSE THAT FAT: :Stories of Destiny Arriving Through Disappointment","description":"Before she was Oprah, a young television host checked into a weight-loss clinic to make herself smaller for the role of a lifetime. Then Steven Spielberg called with a warning: if you lose a pound, you could lose this part. The very thing she was trying to erase was the thing her destiny required.\u003cbr\u003eThat moment gives this book its name-and its argument. Across thirty-eight lives, Don't Lose That Fat traces a single startling pattern: the rejection, the wound, the accent, the closed door, the detour, the trait you were taught to be ashamed of-the thing that looked like the obstacle was, again and again, the doorway to a calling far larger than the one that was planned.\u003cbr\u003eThe deaf composer who wrote music he would never hear. The girl who went silent for five years and became one of the great voices in American letters. The man ashamed of comic books. The failing salesman whose dead-end job carried the one lead that built an empire. The clergyman-in-training who almost didn't board the ship. From Frida Kahlo and Beethoven to Mandela, Maya Angelou, Schwarzenegger, and Rosa Parks, these are the stories of people for whom the loss was not the opposite of the calling but the strange and painful shape of its arrival.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a book of easy slogans. It refuses to call genuine suffering a gift, flags the legends that history has polished too smooth, and shows the ethical shadows alongside the triumphs. What it offers instead is harder and more durable: the possibility that the thing you are most desperate to lose may be the very thing you were meant to keep.\u003cbr\u003eSome doors close on purpose. Some detours are the road. And sometimes the gold goes in the cracks.\u003cbr\u003eDon't lose that fat.","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48246974644465,"sku":"9798256370091","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9798256370091_p0.jpg?v=1780565240","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9798256370091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}