This novel would be downright silly, if it weren’t so darned sweet. The premise of The Program is that Satan has launched a miraculous weight-loss program designed to ensnare the souls of millions of sad women who have been brainwashed into believing that curves mean fat, and fat means unsexy and unloveable. And so Lovett takes on the obsession with weight that dominates the world’s media,  entertainment industry, fashion industry, and bedrooms around the globe, and presents us with a different reality, one in which men express their preference for “voluptuous,” “Rubenesque” and “zaftig” women instead of the flat-chested, concave-bellied, […]