For one moment we are not failed test and broken condoms and cheating on essays we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. “The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. Her narrator Lia’s manic stream-of-consciousness style paces the novel perfectly allowing the character’s complex arc to develop and enticing the reader to slug through the early chapters that seem a tad overwritten until viewed in context with the rest of the book.Īnderson introduces her characters with well-coined phrases – Lia is “that girl…the space between thighs, daylight shining through…the bones they want, wired on porcelain frame” – and laces longer poetic descriptions into the usually choppy prose. Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson’s nightmarish anorexia novel to be released on March 19, reads like an anorexic girl sees her body: good but never good enough with room for improvement always present and just a little bit fake.Īnderson’s strength from her first novel, bestselling Speak published a decade ago, continues to shine through: outstanding control over language.
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