Geneen Roth, author of Women Food and God

I have the very good fortune of being able to work with the most amazing authors and publishers because of my profession as a book publicist. Geneen Roth is among the very best. She's smart, funny, and kind. She cares about people and that comes across in everything she says and writes.

Geneen is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including her newest effort Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Anything, a book which is getting a lot of attention, and rightly so. Geneen has been writing on the issue of food and our reponses to it over for 30 years. Here is what Oprah talks to Geneen about in the April 2010 issue of O Magazine.

Geneen says that the most radical part of her own story is not that she stopped dieting; it's that she stopped trying to fix herself. She stopped fighting with herself, stopped balming herself, her mother, her latest boyfriend for her weight. And since diets were her most flagrant attempt at fixing herself, she stopped them as well. Women Food and God. It's an exceptional book from an exceptional writer.