"The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals ...
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"The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street"--
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This book is a powerful and emotional debut and the first one I've read from the point of view of a person suffering from anorexia. The author made me love the characters and took me on an emotional roller coaster ride with peeks at Anna's past life before anorexia and then back to the connections in the present. I cried and laughed, got angry and frustrated right along with Anna.
After reading this book, which I truly believe was written with an authentic voice of an anorexic woman, I now have a better and deeper understanding of the physical, emotional, mental, and social consequences of this disease. I know how loved ones can be affected and how they can choose to ignore the problem, leave, stay to help fight, or just get angry with misunderstanding anorexia. Now I know it's not a choice to have the disease, but a choice to want to live or die. Highly recommended.
