Zoe Letting Go
Zoe knows she doesn't belong in a hospital. So why is she in one? Twin Birch isn't just any hospital. It's a strange mansion populated by unnerving staff and glassy-eyed patients. It's a place for girls with serious problems; spindly girls who have a penchant for harming themselves. Zoe isn't...
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Zoe knows she doesn't belong in a hospital. So why is she in one? Twin Birch isn't just any hospital. It's a strange mansion populated by unnerving staff and glassy-eyed patients. It's a place for girls with serious problems; spindly girls who have a penchant for harming themselves. Zoe isn't like them. Through letters to her best friend, Elise, Zoe tries to come to terms with why she was sent to Twin Birch against her will. But Elise never writes back. Alone and trying to navigate tenuous friendships and bizarre rules, Zoe finds that the reason for Elise's silence lies in memories of their beautiful, inescapable, and sometimes suffocating friendship. A friendship that has both saved her and may still destroy her--unless she is able to confront the truth about her past once and for all. "A psychological zinger . . . will keep readers invested to the last page."--Kirkus, starred review
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595146267 (1595146261)
Publish date: July 25th 2013
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Health,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Death,
High School
I don’t know where I got this one or where I even heard about it but it is highly likely that I was suckered in by the blurb. Stick “haunting” in your cover copy and this sucker is likely to buy it. A girl's letters to her best friend reveal two lives derailed by anorexia in this haunting debut. ...
Zoe Letting Go. The slow realizations here coupled with a very detailed description of her mundane day-to-day are overtaken by how on her side the writing manages to make me feel. Zoe sounds so utterly reasonable and rational while everyone else so decidedly not, her mother included. It’s the adult...
I've read a fair share of YA 'issue' books in the past, but Zoe Letting Go is the first one I've read that deals directly with eating disorders. And unlike many issues books, eating disorders is something we can all probably relate to a little - that voice inside our heads that tells us we really s...
Sixteen-year old, Zoe gets packed up and shipped off to Twin Birch, a six week program for anorexia girls. But Zoe doesn’t believe she fits the profile and soon finds out that the other patients agree. So why exactly is she there? With no contact with the outside world Zoe has to try to piece this ...
I borrowed this from the library, and when I went to the Kobo store to check out it’s summary for this post, I saw that it costs $11.99 to buy. Boy, I am saving so much money by borrowing books from the library instead of purchasing every book I read!! I am so thankful for my library card! Anyway, h...