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| Title | : | Skinny |
| Author | : | Ibi Kaslik |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 244 pages |
| Published | : | September 19th 2006 by Walker & Co (first published April 17th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Health |
Ibi Kaslik
Hardcover | Pages: 244 pages Rating: 3.44 | 6067 Users | 494 Reviews
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Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat?
Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life.
This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from the perspective of both girls, as they alternate narrating each chapter. Gritty and often wryly funny, Skinny explores family relationships, love, pain, and the hunger for acceptance that drives all of us.
Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life.
This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from the perspective of both girls, as they alternate narrating each chapter. Gritty and often wryly funny, Skinny explores family relationships, love, pain, and the hunger for acceptance that drives all of us.
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| Original Title: | Skinny |
| ISBN: | 0802796087 (ISBN13: 9780802796080) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.44 From 6067 Users | 494 ReviewsComment On Based On Books Skinny
4.5 "harsh, stylized, visceral" stars!! 2016 Honorable Mention Read Ms. Kaslik spares nobody in this family drama. A mother and two daughters grieve the death of the male figure (father/husband) and each are damaged to varying degrees. Mother is tired, lonely and unable to move forward. The story though mostly revolves around the two daughters as they struggle with themselves and each other. The elder has had to drop out of med school as she has relapsed with severe (and I mean severe) anorexiaI picked up Skinny at the bookstore because the writing style didnt seem awful, which is often the case with YA reads these days. Youve got to hunt for the gems amidst the junk. I am an avid YA fan and love the well-written novels in the genre. That being said, what seemed like a promising read turned out to be a messy, tangent-prone dud. There were redeeming moments in the book, but the author had too much going on to accomplish the mission at hand. At the end of the book I was left with a sort
2.5/5 stars
I went into Skinny wanting to read an anorexia story. How one character was struggling with this eating disorder and her sister was struggling to try to help her get over it. And if that was all the story was about, I would've loved this book. Because the writing wasn't that bad. But only a tiny bit of this book was about Giselle's anoxeria.Because most of this book was about the 20 other angst-y problems that were added. To list some of them: their dead dad who didn't like/ignored Giselle,
This book is about a young woman who is destroying herself while those around her are helpless to stop and can only watch her slide into oblivion. The narration alternates, between Giselle, the anorexic older sister, and Holly, the better compensated (albeit still disturbed) older sister. Within the narrative that is Giselles, she carries on a dialogue with her inner demon which presumably is her disease. With respect to an accurate portrait of anorexia nervosa as an obsessive condition, this
The writing was okay but my main problem with the book was that I couldn't really get a clear picture of anything. There was always this sense of detachment between the characters and their story from the outside world. It's hard to place their lives in the context of the rest of the world, and for a long time I didn't even know where they were. I don't know what they looked like, and I seriously can't picture much of anything. Some scenes also seemed like they were included just for angst -
This book was very raw and realistic and sad. We get to see this story through two different points of views, and at first I wasnt sure how to feel about this but in the end I found it interesting to see the illness from Hollys point of view.Giselle is an incredibly intelligent med student who suffers from anorexia, as you read along you start to see that it seems that she also suffers from Dissociative identity disorder(multiple personality) one part of her wants to be healthy, understands that
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