- Grief, Death, Bulimia, Fiction
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
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Spare, classical in form, contemporary and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Natasha Friend
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions, Recorded Books, Scholastic
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781571316516
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First sentence
“APRIL USED TO BE MY SISTER.”
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