![]() The rich, individual specifics of the Vasco family broaden the story beyond Giselle's disorder. Canadian author Kaslik's style is descriptive and meditative yet appropriately high tension, and she depicts with bitter clarity the way life goes on around anorexia but never without it, as even when Giselle can manage to eat she can't manage to do it without checking in with herself on every bite. Interwoven with Giselle's narration is that of her fourteen-year-old sister, Holly, rebellious student but star athlete, terrified by her sister's decline and furious at what it's doing to the family. ![]() ![]() At home, she's in a turmoil of memories about her family, especially about her demanding Hungarian father, now dead, who suspected her paternity (he began an affair with her mother when she was engaged to another man) she also embarks on a serious relationship with Sol, an old acquaintance turned new love, yet through it all she must negotiate with her shadow other self who insists that the way she can prove her worth is to demonstrate her control over the physical constraint of hunger. Giselle Vasco is a first-year medical-school student when her anorexia roars out of control, sending her first to the hospital and then home to her mother and sister instead of continuing with her studies. ![]()
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