The Washington Post called the book "both painful to read and riveting". Yet it pulls them off with more skill and effect than anything I have ever read." It may not be an original piece, as these tricks have been pulled before in teen fiction. It's a book that will be around for many years. It would be rare to find a novel in mainstream adult fiction prepared to pull out the dramatic stops this far, and difficult to imagine one in recent years that was prepared to be so bold stylistically. It's an exhausting novel to read: brilliant, intoxicating, full of drama, love and, like all the best books of this kind, hope.
As with the plotting, this fractured and utterly convincing interior monologue is intercut with the rather bored face she presents to the world around her.Īnd yet, throughout, there is the feeling that if somehow you could only reach in and talk to this girl, you could save her life.
The dirt in this case is, of course, herself. Lia starves herself because it is the only control she has over her disintegrating personality anyway, why feed something so hateful? She cuts herself not to cause pain, but to let the pain – and the dirt – out. Melvin Burgess of The Guardian says, "The true nature of anorexia is made painfully clear.
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