![]() Both characters seek control of their bodies-Giselle through her strict eating regimen and Holly through excelling at sports. Giselle is a 22-year-old top medical student and also an anorexic who often seems lost and on the point of disintegration. The two are a study in contrasts, yet have interesting similarities of character. It is not for the faint hearted!Ĭhapters are written in the first person and alternate between Giselle and her younger sister, Holly. This is a book for readers willing to open themselves to a vivid story which is both haunting and compelling. Traumatic events are coloured by constant tension, secrecy and jealousy. In Skinny, her first novel, Ibi Kaslik weaves together an incredible number and variety of themes and plots. And hunger became my salvation after a while, hunger, my sexless, undemanding suitor, was my only constant friend. Naturally skinny, but not dangerously so, I trod the line between waif and child as I grew into a woman. Still, my own stiff regimen of stripping myself to the core and forcing myself to turn away from those curious eyes made me feel proud, if alienated I was trading my new-found power of flesh for something more trustworthy, something pure. ![]() It was me, and only me, who could control my cravings denying myself food was proof that I was stronger, better than most people. ![]() ![]() While I craved attention, I was terrified of letting someone else into my imperfect, hateful world. ![]()
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