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Skinny

By Ibi Kaslik

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| Hardcover | 9780802796080

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Book Description

Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat?

Holly’s older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student, is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her ownContinue

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Skinny by Ibi Kaslik

HarperCollins Canada , 244 pp, $19.95, softcover. Sometimes a story is so painful that you feel like you've accidentally stumbled upon something you shouldn't have, that you've found the author's private notes by mistake or opened the door on a solit ... (read full critics)

straight published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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Giselle Vasco grew up feeling estranged in her own family. Somehow lacking. Unsure what she did to lose her father's love. Comparing herself to her younger sister, whom she never measured up to. All she really had going for her was her mind, but one year into medical school, even that turns against ... (continue)

Giselle Vasco grew up feeling estranged in her own family. Somehow lacking. Unsure what she did to lose her father's love. Comparing herself to her younger sister, whom she never measured up to. All she really had going for her was her mind, but one year into medical school, even that turns against her, leading her down a long, dark, spiraling road.

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