Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson, 2009.
What is it like to be a wintergirl? ”Caught between (two) worlds . . . (freezing your butt off,) a ghost with a beating heart.” All I have to say is it’s got to suck. Lia looks like a disgusting haunted toothpick, and Cassie is totally dead. This book is about them. It’s wicked good. That’s why I’m blogging about it.
Cassie will be hot gossip for another couple days. Maybe she od’ed on heroine. They found her in a seedy motel all alone. It is so tragic. Lia used to be her best friend, but they stopped talking like 8 months ago. Who knows why.
I heard they made a pact to be the skinniest girls in school. Cassie was tiny, but Lia is all skin and bones. So not hot.
Anyhoo, Lia lives with her dad and step-mom and their daughter Emma when she’s not in rehab with hoses in her nose being stuffed like a pig. Why can’t she just eat and be healthy? What is her deal?
The other latest that I’ve heard is that Lia started cutting again. Even I have bad days, but cutting my own skin is gnarly. I’d never go there.
“Wintergirls” glitters if you put it in the light just right; just don’t read it without someone to talk to. I am totally here if you want to talk.
(Mercedes-The Loft)*I’m a librarian with creative writing tendencies!
“so not hot” captures it. The book is “wicked good” does too. Thanks for drawing attention to a stunning, haunting and disturbing story that has already opened up some long overdue conversation. This book deserves “just the right light” and then some. I hope the conversation continues, and deepens as we all talk more. That would do this story justice.
And Lia was hard to see, like the font color…