Pretty Bones

by Aya Tsintziras

Overview

Raine has a family, good grades, best friends, and a boyfriend who loves her. But then anorexia takes over, and her life spirals out of control. Her efforts to hide her condition are finished when she collapses at a school dance. Although she's whisked away to treatment, Raine isn't ready to accept who she really is and get the help she desperately needs. For Raine, coming-of-age means coming closer to death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552777145
Publisher:	James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date:	09/28/2011
Series:	Lorimer SideStreets Series
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
Lexile:	HL630L (what's this?)
File size:	627 KB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

AYA TSINTZIRAS is a YA author who lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario. Her first novel, Pretty Bones, a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl struggling with anorexia, is based on a play she wrote at age fifteen.

Editorial Reviews

"The connection between Raine's anorexia, the death of her father and the difficulties with her mother...is drawn with care...[and] her approach is believable."

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"The writing is succinct, powerful, and subtle at the same time. Tsintziras prose style is engaging and engrossing, pulling the reader into Raine's head and her perceptions of herself. Readers can't help but become infuriated that they can't help Raine in some way. The first-person narrative style is insightful and helps create a very realistic understanding of what goes through the mind of someone suffering from anorexia. Pretty Bones is important and a must-have for library shelves."

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