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Analysis Of Wintergirls By Laurie Halse Anderson

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On average 0.3-0.4% of girls and 0.1% of males suffers from anorexia (Statistics & Research on Eating Disorders). That number is likely to rise with the way society expects women to look. Wintergirls not only talks about what it's like to live day to day with this disease it also shows readers that it is possible to recover from the disease if they really want to. Wintergirls is a novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson about Lia’s struggle with an eating disorder and the guilt of Cassie’s death. The characters may not be relatable to every young adult but to the ones that have an eating disorder or self-harms can relate to them. Even someone that may know someone that is going through this can probably relate to them. This book may be a trigger
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