A Trick of the Light
by:
Lois Metzger (author)
Mike Welles had everything under control. But that was before. Now things are rough at home, and they’re getting confusing at school. He’s losing his sense of direction, and he feels like he’s a mess. Then there’s a voice in his head. A friend, who’s trying to help him get control again. More...
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Mike Welles had everything under control. But that was before. Now things are rough at home, and they’re getting confusing at school. He’s losing his sense of direction, and he feels like he’s a mess. Then there’s a voice in his head. A friend, who’s trying to help him get control again. More than that—the voice can guide him to become faster and stronger than he was before, to rid his life of everything that’s holding him back. To figure out who he is again. If only Mike will listen. Telling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferers—young men—A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger is a book for fans of the complex characters and emotional truths in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls and Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780062133083 (006213308X)
Publish date: June 18th 2013
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Pages no: 189
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Drama,
Health,
Contemporary,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
High School,
Illness
the most interesting thing about this book was something that i immediately noticed: the point of view it's told from. sometimes i want to read a book about a boy without having to read the book from the boy's perspective. i want to see their world from the outside it, not always the inside out. thi...
I've read several books about eating disorders in 2013, but A Trick of the Light is the first one with a male main character, and also the most unique. The narrator of the story is not Mike, it is anorexia itself, which brings a completely different perspective. The story begins as Mike's life sta...
I've read several books about eating disorders in 2013, but A Trick of the Light is the first one with a male main character, and also the most unique. The narrator of the story is not Mike, it is anorexia itself, which brings a completely different perspective. The story begins as Mike's life sta...
Where, oh where did Mike go? At first it was his mother with her hourly baths and her inability to get out of bed. Then his father started to disappear at work. When Valerie shows up at school, Mike thought he might have a chance at this new classmate but his best friend Tamio sweeps in and Mike k...
I don't get a feeling I got with this book very often. I was completely, excuse my French, mindfucked by this from the very beginning and sometimes I needed to take a break and process everything that I've read. It's unusual, strange, weird - however you want to call it - book and it takes some time...
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