![]() ![]() Stevie's reactions to it is believable, and I liked the subtle insinuation into our beliefs of the illness. I liked "sitting in" on her therapy sessions. I feel like it realisticly portrays the triggering incidents that leads to Stevie's anorexia without making it overblown. ![]() I will not take a single breath on the one-year anniversary of the night I killed my brother.Any book about a mental illness has the duty to portray that illness faithfully, and I felt that this book did just that. Whatever I have to do to make it home in time to die. I will find a way out of here, I tell myself. ![]() My guess is that you may even want to die.” If you don’t get intensive treatment right now, you are going to die. “Let me assure you that you do, in fact, need to be here. Stevie doesn't care about dying, in fact, she plans on it. An eating disorder that can and often kills its sufferers. This book is about a young woman who is committed to a treatment facility because she suffers from anorexia nervosa. It's just a matter of book chemistry, with no disrespect to the book. For me, the reason for a 3 is just that it didn't click with me emotionally. The author's depiction of anorexia nervosa was realistic and clearly well-researched, with a great deal of sensitivity to the illness. ![]()
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