Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Not only was it something fresh and new unlike anything I've read before, but it was also brutally honest and real. It read more like a memoir, and maybe it truly is, but I could definitely see the author having experienced these same traumas. The writing was exceptionally real and emotional.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Not only was it something fresh and new unlike anything I've read before, but it was also brutally honest and real. It read more like a memoir, and maybe it truly is, but I could definitely see the author having experienced these same traumas. The writing was exceptionally real and emotional.