Caroline Burau

Sugarfiend Caroline Burau

If her life is a box of chocolates, acid-tongued, sugar-obsessed Estelle Brown should learn how to pick them better. Her boyfriend?s left her for a bulimic hand model, her roomate?s skipped town, and her boss is in love with her. Fed up and In the middle of her latest of a lifetime of doomed diet attempts ? cutting sugar cold turkey ? Estelle decides to quit quitting for good, pack her bags, and lose herself on a 7-day Caribbean cruise. But even on a floating monument to binge eating, the diet industry follows her. Across from every buffet is a studio full of treadmills. Next to every plate of fried calamari is a large diet Coke. As a ship full of wary passengers ducks for cover, Hurricane Estelle wages her own personal war against moderation. But the consequences land her in the belly of the beast: broke, alone, and forced to take a job as ?of all things-- a detox consultant for the ship. Is Skinny the answer to Happy? Is Sweet n Low the new black? Is that Denise Austin chick ? for real? No, no and yes, oddly. But for a Sugarfiend, it?s not the destination that matters, it?s all the cupcakes you get to eat along the way.