![]() The most I can remember reading about eating disorders was probably in Unspeakable Things, wherein Laurie Penny talks about the way medical professionals “treating” her eating disorder also coerced her into performing their vision of a feminine gender role. Trigger warning (both book and review) for discussions of eating disorders, suicide/death.īy way of disclaimer, I know next to nothing about anorexia or other eating disorders. I guess it effectively communicates the state of Lia’s mind, and while such tricks haven’t worked for me in the past, it works here in tandem with Anderson’s careful characterization and the duplicity that Lia presents to the outside world. For some reason, though, it seized me here and didn’t let me go. Normally I dislike gimmicky or unconventional experiments in narrative style, even when they attempt to bring verisimilitude to a narrator’s stream of consciousness. ![]() ![]() Laurie Halse Anderson’s writing is highly stylized in Wintergirls I mistook the cover copy’s description of her writing as “lyrical” as being metaphorical, but it’s more accurate than not. This was a difficult book to read, and not just because of its subject matter. ![]()
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