I absolutely loved the author's craft in this book. Although it deals with the scary issue of eating disorders and the manifestation of severe depression, the way that Anderson writes pulls you in. (She is also the author of Speak).
Lia is trapped in a spiral of a poor self-image along with feeling as if now one sees her for who she is. Her parents high stress and high profile jobs left her feeling as if they do not know her. Their divorce coulpled with the tragic death of her former best friend sends her spiralling downward. She is haunted by the ghost of Cassie, her former best friend since she was 12. Cassie died alone in a hotel room after suffering the effects of her bulemia. Cassie and Lia fostered each other's eating disorders and Cassie's death has Lia facing her own mortality.
This is the first book I have read about an adolescent suffering from an eating disorder that truly gave you a picture of what it felt like to live in her world and think her thoughts.
This would foster GREAT book club discussion but high caution about the reality and brutal descriptions of what it is like to live - or die - with an eating disorder.
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