PRETTY BONES (September 2011, James Lorimer)
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.
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“A kind of a YA take on The Edible Woman, Aya Tsintziras’ Pretty Bones casts that most elusive of literary magic spells: a convincing voice. Tsintziras knows her characters and the world they live in, and this intimacy makes us believe in – and care about – their world too, making it ours.”
- Andrew Pyper, author of The Killing Circle
“Pretty Bones is a sweet, honest, sensitive look at anorexia—a condition that cripples the mind perhaps even more than the body. Tsintziras is a writer to watch.”
- Tish Cohen, author of The Truth About Delilah Blue
“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. 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.”
– CM Magazine
“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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