Paperweight

This emotionally haunting and superbly written younger grownup debut delves into the devastating impression of trauma and loss, within the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls.

Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her physique. And now in an eating-disorder remedy middle on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert.

Life within the middle is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at supper time, accompany her to the lavatory, and problem her to eat the meals she’s labored so exhausting to keep away from.

Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of remedy. However what nobody is aware of is that Stevie doesn’t plan to remain that lengthy. There are solely twenty-seven days till the anniversary of her brother Josh’s demise—the demise she triggered. And if Stevie will get her manner, there are solely twenty-seven days till she, too, will finish her life.

Paperweight follows seventeen-year-old Stevie’s journey as she struggles not solely with a life-threatening consuming dysfunction, however with the query of whether or not she will be able to ever discover absolution for the errors of her previous…and whether or not she really deserves to.