Enmeshed in an increasingly toxic relationship, the two girls are finally estranged after Cassie emerges from treatment for what will prove the final time.
Suffering from anorexia and bulimia respectively, Lia and Cassie are slowly deteriorating at the hands of their respective eating disorders. The facts sneak in and stab me…įormer best friends Lia and Cassie are ‘Wintergirls’, engaged in a potentially fatal competition to determine who can become the skinniest. I can’t let me hear this, but it’s too late. “So she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee. In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia’s descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend’s restless spirit. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. Source & Format Purchased from Chapters, Paperbackįind It On Goodreads Genre & Keywords Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Eating Disorders, Mental Illness
Published March 19th, 2009 by Viking Juvenile
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