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  • Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die.But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
    Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She ... Continue

    Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die.But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
    Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She won't even speak.
    But Callie can only stay silent for so long...

    

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  • I can't actually remember much in vivid detail about this book anymore, since it was so long ago, but I do recall quite liking and thinking she did a very good job with the story.

    

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Fifteen-year old Callie is so withdrawn that she's not speaking to anyone including her therapist at the residential treatment facility where her parents and doctor send her after discovering that she cuts herself. Her story unfolds primarily through dramatic monologues, gradually revealing the family turmoil that led to her self-destructive behavior. Her little brother, Sam, is ill he nearly died in her care. Since Sam's illness, Callie's mother has become so worried and fragile that she rarely leaves the house. Her father has responded to the psychological and financial stress of Sam's illness by disappearing into his work, and when that doesn't work, into his drinking.

Callie's efforts to understand herself and her family illuminate her process of recovery honestly and with hope. Cut provides an insightful look at the psychology of cutting a form of self-abuse an estimated 2 million teenage girls inflict on themselves.

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