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UNKNOWN
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
ISBN: 1551526182
EAN: 9781551526188
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Fiction Women's Fiction
Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has
resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an
adult, and leaving her childhood behind, has broken her
heart. Faerie, a novel for young people, is the fierce yet
gently unfolding story of a hyper- imaginative girl who
is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself
to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the
earthly world; but in the cold light of day she is a
psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being
treated for anorexia - her sickness driven by the
irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of
time. Lila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East
wing: we flash back to her childhood in the eighties,
growing up in a small town as the overweight brown kid of
Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar
whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife - "the
most female of all females who found comfort in cooking."
Faerie weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral
into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and
her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a
price. Written with candor and heartbreaking lyricism,
Faerie is a plaintive yet ultimately life-affirming love
letter to the bold, flawed splendor that is childhood.
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