If you’ve ever lost weight and gained it back, you can likely relate to Angry Fat Girls: 5 Women, 500 Pounds and a Year of Losing It . . . Again (Berkley Hardcover, $23.95), by Frances Kuffel. She is a New York-based short story and book author and columnist who transformed her life by losing 188 pounds, documenting it in a previous book, “Passing for Thin.” But she gained more than half the weight back. In this book, she shares her story and those of four women, who found each other over the Internet, facing similar situations. It’s a funny, painfully honest memoir as these women diet, lose and gain and struggle to find their definition of freedom.

by Barb Berggoetz, MEDIA SCAN, IndyStar.com