Chapters switch the between the perspectives of each girl, with Gizelle's beginning with snippets from a medical text, giving an eerie, dry tone to the emotional story. Gizelle's had to drop out of medical school due to her illness, and Holly, in contrast, is an athlete. The main characters in the book are Gizelle and her sister Holly. Skinny is a new book by Canadian Ibi Kaslik, who, not surprisingly, had an eating disorder herself. What's interesting is that a lot of these books literally work as How-To books for eating disorders, describing in detail how to get your own! I know I certainly picked up a few bad habits myself from those books. A lot of these books followed the same formula - an ever so slightly chubby adolescent from an upstanding family has a few pressures and eventually almost dies from anorexia or bulimia. When I was but a teenager, I hate to tell you how many books I read about girls with eating disorders.
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