Ballard, Alexandra What I Lost, 390 pages. Farrar Straus
Giroux, 2017. $18. Content: Language: PG-13 (34 swears); Mature Content: PG-13;
Violence: G.
Elizabeth is a sixteen year
old anorexic and her parents have put her into a treatment center to help her
heal. While there, Elizabeth meets other
girls who have her same disease and she also reflects on how she came to have
the ideas she does about her body. Elizabeth
also gets packages from a secret admirer and piece together the clues to who it
might be. With the help of friends, counselors and family she starts to see her
strengths not just her weaknesses.
I
couldn’t put this book down. I wanted
Elizabeth to succeed and I think the issues of body shaming and bullying were
well handled. The discussion of anorexia was well done including the fact that it can permanently damage a body and can be genetic. The mature content is
anorexia and bulimia, bullying and talk of sex.
MS, HS – ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C.
Peterson.
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