Now, in Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson tackles another tough and heartbreaking topic, Anorexia. Seriously! When I read SPEAK (a banned book by the way!) I was blown away by the powerful and brave topic of a teenager being raped at a party, and afraid to talk about it. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. The only number that would ever be enough is 0. If I weight 010.00, I wouldn’t be happy until I got down to 005.00.
If I got down to 070.00, I’d want to be 065.00. triumphantly to 90, then 87, then 85, then 83…. why do they continue to try to make her fat? Trying to make her eat like the gluttons they are? Do they not know that she will run on the treadmill for fours hours later, getting rid of it… all of it until that scale creeps down….
but at 18 years old, Lia cant stand how being 97 pounds feels…. Now Lia finds herself in a world where her parents watch her like a hawk… trying to get her to eat, trying to help her… but when Lia looks in the mirror she sees only the yellowness of oozy fat beneath her skin….Īnd so, Lia watched everything she eats…. And really, would picking up the phone that night have helped Cassie? Or for that matter, have helped Lia? each of them part of the “Winter Girls”, each competing to be the thinnest… the smallest girl in school… in their town… everywhere. Lia should have picked up the phone.Īnd not Cassie is dead and Lia is left with the “should have” and the “could have” of a moment in time that may have changed everything.Īfter all, Cassie and Lia were once very close…. When Cassie called Lia, crying, begging for her to help… to talk to her, to be there for her….
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