Wintergirls...

Although we are not very familiar with the idea of winter around here in southern CA, I thought this book held fascinating ideas of how dealing with anorexia (or bulemia)- or any other serious mental health issue seems to limit the sufferer to only dealing with life as if in a wintry haze. The protagonist of the book, a term I use loosely, because sometimes you feel so frustrated with Lia as a character that you wish she would just fade into nothingness like she seems to want to do, Lia, is a girl who is lost in the winter of her deeper issues: control, self-inflicted stress and worry, and the idea that if she stays pure, she will win the war against the forces working against her.