It makes her anorexic voice very strong, and the ability to see how far gone she is more apparent. She told the story in fist person, and during her train of thoughts, the text with what she should actually say was crossed out, vs.
I thought that the way Anderson wrote Lia’s voice was interesting as well.
This isn’t a book to be taken lightly, as the subject matter is serious, but its one that most should read, if not to just gain insight into possibilities. These sites exist, and I can see why Anderson would warn parents who had kids with these disorders, and try to have them avoid reading the book, as it gives many ideas as to how to successfully have an eating disorder. The scariest part was when Lia would go online to the forums where her “friends” with eating issues would login to gain support for not eating. It demonstrates that eating disorders can affect anyone. The death of Cassie triggers her illness further, but it existed prior to that event. Her parents were divorced, but aside from being somewhat distant with her mother, her life was never that hard or challenged. Though Anderson dove into some of Lia’s backstory and history, no real event in her life appeared to be the catalyst for her anorexia or cutting, making it more believable for the everyday teen. Wintergirls is a heartbreaking tale of the effects of eating disorders, and teenagers struggling with body image and acceptance. Counting every calorie, Lia tells the story of her desperate need to be thin. Could she have saved Lia if she answered the phone? Wintergirls is the story of Lia, struggling to continue hiding her ongoing anorexia from her family, and being haunted by the death (and ghost) of Lia. When Lia hears the news that Cassie was found alone in a motel room with a ruptured esophagus due to complications with bulimia, she checks her phone and realizes that Cassie called her 33 times the night of her death. Both girls had struggled with different eating disorders and additional mental illness including cutting. Lia and Cassie had been best friends since elementary school, though they hadn’t really spoken for six months.
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