![]() ![]() ![]() What's particularly striking about the book, what had me lying awake at night, was the fact that Lia's life is pretty normal. As the story begins, Cassie, Lia's one-time best friend and fellow eating disorder sufferer, dies, and even that isn't enough of a wake-up call to change her. Lia sees the impact that she's having on her impressionable young stepsister, but she still doesn't eat. Through Wintergirls, Anderson shows us both the skewed viewpoint of girls like Lia (who, even as they waste away to skin and bones see themselves as obese), and the deviousness and single-mindedness with which they can pursue their goals. Lia's mother is a doctor, and she still can't make her daughter eat. Wintergirls is the first person story of Lia, a girl who devotes her considerable determination to a single cause - that of being thin. In the case of Wintergirls, that condition is anorexia. Both books give the reader an inside perspective on a condition that most people aren't comfortable thinking about. Laurie Halse Anderson's upcoming young adult novel Wintergirls is sure to draw comparisons to her 1999 novel, Speak. ![]()
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