Gritty and often wryly funny, 'Skinny 'explores family relationships, love, pain, and the hunger for acceptance that drives all of us. This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from the perspective of both girls, as they alternate narrating each chapter. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Her first novel, Skinny, was a New York Times bestseller.

Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student, is gripped by anorexia. Her novel The Angel Riots was nominated for Ontarios Trillium award (2009). Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. 'Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat?' Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student, is gripped by anorexia. Despite those flaws, readers may find themselves absorbed in this emotional and compellingly written chronicle of two sisters' experiences.'Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat?' Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Holly's narration sounds too much like Giselle's, however, evincing implausible sophistication for an eighth-grader the book also tries to fit too much in, between the snippets of medical textbooks that punctuate moments, the protracted details of Giselle's parents' history, a brief (and unsettling) flirtation between Holly and Sol, and Giselle's surgery for endometriosis. The rich, individual specifics of the Vasco family broaden the story beyond Giselle's disorder. Canadian author Kaslik's style is descriptive and meditative yet appropriately high tension, and she depicts with bitter clarity the way life goes on around anorexia but never without it, as even when Giselle can manage to eat she can't manage to do it without checking in with herself on every bite. Interwoven with Giselle's narration is that of her fourteen-year-old sister, Holly, rebellious student but star athlete, terrified by her sister's decline and furious at what it's doing to the family. At home, she's in a turmoil of memories about her family, especially about her demanding Hungarian father, now dead, who suspected her paternity (he began an affair with her mother when she was engaged to another man) she also embarks on a serious relationship with Sol, an old acquaintance turned new love, yet through it all she must negotiate with her shadow other self who insists that the way she can prove her worth is to demonstrate her control over the physical constraint of hunger. Giselle Vasco is a first-year medical-school student when her anorexia roars out of control, sending her first to the hospital and then home to her mother and sister instead of continuing with her studies. Skinny By Ibi Kaslik Book Report 4.8/5 User ID: 231078 / Please enter your email to receive the instructions on how to reset your password.

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