GENRE: Poetry Memoir
HONORS: none
REVIEW: This book is a first person account about the daily struggle of Eirean Corrigan, who was wrestling with acute anorexia and bulimia. Throughout the book, she alternates between time frames and the different memories ranging from her personal horrors of feeling overweight to recollections of Daniel her high school love, then being in the hospital with Daniel by her bedside and his attempts to shoot himself in the head. Corrigan presents a memoir full of innocent poems mixed with the grim details of only having a diet soda and a sardine in a day to yellow skin and hair falling to a comatose boyfriend. Her passion for writing and her diligence of wanting to return to the brighter past conveys a perseverance that gleams subtly throughout the book.
OPINION: The grim reality of striving to be thin will appeal to teens because of its heartrending nature and intimate perspective. The narrative poetry captures a drastic period of the writer's disorientating illness, as well as her feelings of having and losing her one true love. Her poetry is well rendered and her attitude progressively loses its anger and gains spirit, which provides the needed resolution to a heavy situation.
IDEAS: A must for a YA collection!!!!!
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