Paperweight
This emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls.
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert.
Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at meal time, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she's worked so hard to avoid.
Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she, too, will end her life.
Paperweight follows seventeen-year-old Stevie's journey as she struggles not only with a life-threatening eating disorder, but with the question of whether she can ever find absolution for the mistakes of her past...and whether she truly deserves to.
Author: Meg Haston
Publisher: Harperteen
Published: 07/07/2015
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780062335746
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2015
School Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 120
Publishers Weekly 05/04/2015
Romantic Times 07/01/2015 pg. 39 - Excellent
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2015 pg. 134
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2015 - Recommended - Better Than Most
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/02/2015 pg. 96
About the Author
Haston, Meg: -
Meg Haston is the author of How to Rock Braces and Glasses and How to Rock Best Friends and Frenemies. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where she writes and works as a counselor in an independent school. Paperweight is her first young adult novel.