⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5—The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib (Out February 5, 2019)
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Thank you to St Martin’s Press for directly providing me the link for the digital Netgalley for this title!
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Suffering from anorexia, Anna's husband brings her to Swann Street for treatment. There Anna goes through therapy and a difficult eating routine. Every move she makes is monitored, including when she can use the bathroom. As readers, we are there with these girls hearing about what has brought them to this house on Swann Street.
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When I first read about this book, I did not request it due to fear of it being too graphic for me. When the publisher reached out and asked about a blog tour, I changed my mind. I am so happy I did. I read the book in two sittings and was fully vested in not just Anna, but Matthias (her husband) and every other girl there.
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What I Loved: Well written, without stereotyping this illness or giving so much detail just to shock the reader, Zgheib takes us on Anna's journey of recovery. Never suffering from this disease myself, it was heartbreaking to read about what women who struggle with eating disorders go through. EVERY single character. Not one character felt forced or unnecessary.
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What I did not Love: I loved Anna's backstory, but the Phillipe part did not seem as necessary. The ballet competitiveness was placed well, but that relationship not so much. Also, the ending seemed a little abrupt. I think the book could have had 50 more pages to give me a more detailed forward in time-- not to make everything neat and clean but to tell more about the recovery process 6 months later.
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Thank you to St Martin’s Press for directly providing me the link for the digital Netgalley for this title!
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Suffering from anorexia, Anna's husband brings her to Swann Street for treatment. There Anna goes through therapy and a difficult eating routine. Every move she makes is monitored, including when she can use the bathroom. As readers, we are there with these girls hearing about what has brought them to this house on Swann Street.
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When I first read about this book, I did not request it due to fear of it being too graphic for me. When the publisher reached out and asked about a blog tour, I changed my mind. I am so happy I did. I read the book in two sittings and was fully vested in not just Anna, but Matthias (her husband) and every other girl there.
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What I Loved: Well written, without stereotyping this illness or giving so much detail just to shock the reader, Zgheib takes us on Anna's journey of recovery. Never suffering from this disease myself, it was heartbreaking to read about what women who struggle with eating disorders go through. EVERY single character. Not one character felt forced or unnecessary.
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What I did not Love: I loved Anna's backstory, but the Phillipe part did not seem as necessary. The ballet competitiveness was placed well, but that relationship not so much. Also, the ending seemed a little abrupt. I think the book could have had 50 more pages to give me a more detailed forward in time-- not to make everything neat and clean but to tell more about the recovery process 6 months later.