I need hope
After thinking it over, I have changed my rating to 4 stars. This book is written in a then and now style which is not always easy to detect as it jumps at times. Somehow, though, the reader feels like perhaps that is the protagonist, Anna's, way of thinking. Anna has some brain issues due to prolonged Anorexia Nervosa. Apparently along with the obvious body parts even your brain begins o shrink and and maybe your eyes notes Anna. Eating disorders are hard to put into a novel. Happily ever afters rarely happen but the author has done a good job of trying to bring forth some hope. Even the characters suffering from a variety of eating disorders want to cheer on someone to "beat" the disease even if they themselves cannot. All the lovely girls (women) at 17 Swann Street had dreams at one time, they are moms, ex-athletes, ballerinas, and college students. And though the reader doesn't get to go down all the roads of the characters, snippets of their lives are seen through Anna's life. In their pain she finds company until one day a tragedy happens that becomes the catalyst for her deciding if she will fight for her life or not.