Little Imperfections: A Tall Tale of Growing Up Different

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Everything in life is just a tad off but the author does an excellent job tying it together by the end of the book. Between the school and Etta’s fight for the music school, Josie is busy all through the story. It’s easy to relate to her problems. Most moms worry about their children.

Overall: It is funny, entertaining, soft, sweet, feel-good reading! I’m giving my 4 positive, genuine, family bounding stars! I literally devoured this book in half day and I recommend it to you all who is already exhausted to live same Groundhog day and looking for a brightening reading to get rid of darkening moods. Josie’s mother abandoned her to live with her Aunt Viv when she was little to chase her career oriented life. Now Josie wants to be good caring mother but her daughter’s dream to be a dancer and plans to apply to Juillard Conservatory disappoints her. And the worst part is Aunt Viv supports her daughter’s plans.This isn’t an ordinary children’s book. Why did you want to create a video and a book component for this project? She also has to contend with the parents who are desperate to get their children into the school, particularly a high-maintenance woman with boundary issues, and a pair of husbands she can’t quite figure out. Throw in a manipulative boss and the pressure is mounting! Even though story’s direction and conclusion are predictable, I still enjoyed it. ( I always choose predictability over disappointment!) Peet: Basically, it's the same. That's the beauty of it, everyone has their own thing. So if you can just identify what it is, what you think is your weakness, and make it your strength, like really go into that nitty gritty place and discover yourself and embrace who you are unconditionally, it also helps you connect with other people. It helps, that's the main message of this book, it’s not even just "dwarfism awareness," it's more just my life. It's just that. No matter how you feel different, if you have one arm, if you just don’t get along with your teammates, no matter what it is, it's just how you can use that as your strength instead of your weakness. She grew inside me, developed a heart right underneath mine and sometimes I know what she's feeling before she does.

Tiny Imperfections folllows Josie Bordelon, the Director of Admissions at an elite San Francisco private school as she ramps up for another application season. This year, Josie is also guiding her own 17 year old daughter, Etta, through the college admission process though the two don’t see eye-to-eye on Etta’s future. Etta also has the support of Aunt Viv, who took Josie and Etta in years ago when Josie returned home as a young single mom after her modeling career ended. Tiny Imperfections is a well-balanced story of love, new chapters of life and moving forward. Readers can expect a great deal of heart, soul, emotions to the highest degree, and several laugh-out-loud moments sprinkled within this novel. Each of these traits tie into the center of the novel and make it all the more compulsively readable-- Tiny Imperfections reads so smoothly you can expect to lose yourself and your day without even realizing it. Looking at media representations of little people -- what do they get right, what do they get wrong? And what do you hope changes in the future?I am tired of seeing gay men in books just to be that girly, femme side character that complains about excersize and lusts over every man within a six-foot radius. We. Are. Tired. One more question, and it' s kind of fun. Peet, you've had experiences with the infamous Cecil hotel, and I was wondering if you both have had any creepy supernatural encounters. Do you guys believe in ghosts or spirits? What' s your take on that, especially with Halloween right around the corner? At its heart, this book is a story about the Bordelon family, which is comprised of three women from three different generations: Aunt Viv, the matriarch, who has been the Head Cook for over 50 years at Fairchild and who took in a four-year-old Josie when her mother abandoned her, raising her as her own; Josie, Aunt Viv's niece and Etta's mother, who works as the Dean of Admissions at Fairchild, the elite private school that she once attended herself; and Etta, Josie's 17-year-old daughter, who is a senior at Fairchild, one of the best dancers of her age, and currently going through the college admissions process (which causes great stress to her mother). Through Josie's eyes, we see the year unfold and all the drama--both in the family and in the Fairchild admissions process--that that entails. The story is told through the empathic and humorous perspective of Peet Montzingo, the internet sensation who grew up as the only "tall" sibling in a family of little people. It is sweet, fun, soft, entertaining with easily relatable characters, interesting, moving storyline, three generation’s communication problems.

We caught up with Peet to learn more about his YouTube journey and what it was like becoming an author. Josie is currently experiencing a role reversal as she navigates the college admissions process with her seventeen-year-old daughter. She raised Etta with the help of her Aunt Viv and there are strong disagreements among the three about the best choices. Josie would like her daughter to avoid the mistakes that she made in her life and is overly involved in the process. Together they must find a balance while allowing Etta the chance to make her own decisions.

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Montzingo is originally a YouTuber, but became a TikTok star after his videos blew up during the pandemic. Users loved Montzingo's wholesome relationship with his mother, who has dwarfism. Montzingo -- who is the only person of "average height" in his family -- has created popular content about accepting who you are.

Peet often raises awareness for dwarfism with a lighthearted and charming presence, shining a loving light on his family. Right from the get-go, our main character Josie introduces Roan who is in every sense the overused trope of the gay best friend. Let me make something clear: I know that there are gay men out there who fit certain stereotypes very well. They can be flamboyant and love gossip and fashion, and there is NOTHING wrong with being queer and fitting certain queer stereotypes. What I find issue with is when cisgender straight women write a gay character into their story who is the epitome of every stereotype that ever was, and does not contrast them with a more non-conforming gay man. I hate when straight authors will just plop in a gay character for "diversity points" and fit them nicely into an overused and, frankly harmful, trope.That being said, I found the book not only cringe-worthy and predictable, but also incredibly insulting in more ways than one. I want to make it clear that I am a queer woman and although I cannot speak on the themes of race, I do believe I can speak on the poor representation of LGBTQ people in this book.