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This book was really eye - opening for me. It gave me a brief glimpse of what someone with anorexia and/or bulimia experiences, how s/he feels about her/himself, how s/he perceives the world, and the false world s/he must build to preserve the secret. The writing style was very unconventional, but I don't think there is any other way this story could have been told. I loathed both characters, but couldn't wait to find out what happened next. A tragic story and one I will remember.
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This was a powerful, engaging read that was more like poetry than prose. Sarah Gerard captures a particular perspective beautifully, and underscores the lyrical cadence of the main character's visceral dysphoria and alienation with a map of celestial images and information that parallels her own shifts and transformations. If you need a literal, chronological narrative, then this is not the book for you, but I highly recommend it to anyone interested topics like ecofeminism, eating disorders, wo
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I feel like I was looking through a shattered mirror trying to see what was reality. This book had shades of Requiem for a Dream (the movie) for me. There was a lot of chaos and there were times when I was asking myself WTF?!? It is weird and very well written at times but the frustrating moments were enough to prevent me from giving this book 4 stars. I thought the writing style was interesting and really had a great impact on reflecting the main character's inner world but it sucked when tryin
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Feb 22, 2016
MaryAnn
marked it as to-read
