Gizelle's had to drop out of medical school due to her illness, and Holly, in contrast, is an athlete. The main characters in the book are Gizelle and her sister Holly. Skinny is a new book by Canadian Ibi Kaslik, who, not surprisingly, had an eating disorder herself. What's interesting is that a lot of these books literally work as How-To books for eating disorders, describing in detail how to get your own! I know I certainly picked up a few bad habits myself from those books. A lot of these books followed the same formula - an ever so slightly chubby adolescent from an upstanding family has a few pressures and eventually almost dies from anorexia or bulimia. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.When I was but a teenager, I hate to tell you how many books I read about girls with eating disorders. –Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VAĬopyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Kaslik's first novel hits the mark with characters with whom teens will empathize, and tackles a relevant and painful subject with grace. The chapters alternate between the sisters' voices, and the ability to see the events unfolding through their eyes adds a depth and a poignancy that would not have been possible with a single narrator. Holly, a natural athlete, struggles to understand and avert her sister's self-loathing. His doubts color his whole relationship with his older daughter, and when Holly is born eight years later, the divide becomes more apparent. When Thomas and Vesla Vasco emigrated from Hungary in the 1970s to escape communism's rigid caste system, Vesla was already pregnant, and Thomas had always questioned whether the baby was his. What starts as Giselle's story quickly develops into a rich and powerful tapestry of a whole family. Skinny, though, is much more than a study of one young woman's battle with anorexia. But a lifetime of bitter relations with her deceased father is slowly catching up, and she falls into a downward spiral that her mother and her younger sister, Holly, are powerless to stop. Grade 9 Up–In her first year of med school, 22-year-old Giselle Vasco seems to have it all together.
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