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“What I had not learned yet: unconditional support is not the same as unconditional love even if it might look similar.”
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Thin Girls is a dark, enthralling debut novel that will leave you somewhere between enchanted and utterly moved. This debut (I cannot believe this is a debut and will be auto buying Clarke’s books) was extraordinarily written with tender care and gut wrenching honesty. Thin Girls follows Rose and Lily Winters. Two twins who are so intertwined that they can taste each other’s emotions. As Rose grapples with her recovery in a rehabilitation facility for anorexia, she soon discovers that her sister is grappling with her own battles outside of the facility. Desperate to help her sister, she must find a way to leave the facility and make her way to her sister.
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This is not an easy read, and it isn’t intended to be. Thin Girls discusses topics such as eating disorders, queerness, toxic diet culture, and body image through vivid imagery and unique anecdotal facts. As we are reading Thin Girls, Lily is reading a book on animal behavior and the way that those anecdotes played off of the story and enhanced the tough topics the book introduced was astonishing. From the very first page, I knew Diana Clarke’s writing style would enchant me.
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“She wants to make no mark on this world, anorexia, not even a footprint in long grass. If you want to be graceful, it’s best not to exist. She has always been more idea than animal.”
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Thin Girls is ultimately an exploration of what it means to be a woman in a body in a world that is telling you your body does not belong to you. Is not good enough to deserve respect. Is not worthy of love, and care. You will cheer Rose and Lily on as you turn the pages. I cannot rave about this book enough. It is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read, and is truly a remarkable story.
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CW: eating disorders, body shaming, domestic abuse, rape, fat phobia, self harm
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Thin Girls is a dark, enthralling debut novel that will leave you somewhere between enchanted and utterly moved. This debut (I cannot believe this is a debut and will be auto buying Clarke’s books) was extraordinarily written with tender care and gut wrenching honesty. Thin Girls follows Rose and Lily Winters. Two twins who are so intertwined that they can taste each other’s emotions. As Rose grapples with her recovery in a rehabilitation facility for anorexia, she soon discovers that her sister is grappling with her own battles outside of the facility. Desperate to help her sister, she must find a way to leave the facility and make her way to her sister.
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This is not an easy read, and it isn’t intended to be. Thin Girls discusses topics such as eating disorders, queerness, toxic diet culture, and body image through vivid imagery and unique anecdotal facts. As we are reading Thin Girls, Lily is reading a book on animal behavior and the way that those anecdotes played off of the story and enhanced the tough topics the book introduced was astonishing. From the very first page, I knew Diana Clarke’s writing style would enchant me.
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“She wants to make no mark on this world, anorexia, not even a footprint in long grass. If you want to be graceful, it’s best not to exist. She has always been more idea than animal.”
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Thin Girls is ultimately an exploration of what it means to be a woman in a body in a world that is telling you your body does not belong to you. Is not good enough to deserve respect. Is not worthy of love, and care. You will cheer Rose and Lily on as you turn the pages. I cannot rave about this book enough. It is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read, and is truly a remarkable story.
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CW: eating disorders, body shaming, domestic abuse, rape, fat phobia, self harm
maybe the best book about eating disorders that i’ve ever read. i’m changed.
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Why is every book I’ve read this week so fucking good??? What is happening
disclaimer: this review will discuss eating disorders/disordered eating. i'll put a full cw at the bottom
I'm on a Unhinged Girl Literary Fiction kick, I guess. Normally I don't do myself the disservice of reading about eating disorders - like for a lot of others out there, body image and unhealthy relationships with food are a rough thing to think about, and I generally prefer to dwell on other things. However, Thin Girls caught my eye while just scrolling through the e-library catalogue from the title alone, and I read it in one sitting. Oops.
But honestly? I enjoyed it, as much as you can truly enjoy a book that makes you uncomfortable to your very bones and makes you want to crawl out of your skin. It's a deeply fucked up book, and on second thought it falls into a lot of the stereotypes that a lot of eating disorder books fall into. (I thought too long and knocked it down a star because it really, really does, but you know what, at least this book isn't marketed towards teens?) I did find Rose and Lily compelling enough to have me keep reading, and their complicated sibling relationship and Rose's underlying sexuality crisis throughout the book made it more than just an Eating Disorder Novel.
Compelling as it was, I'd suggest not reading this if you have a history of eating disorders or disordered eating, because I can see this book being incredibly triggering. (God, but the title of this book would probably be enticing to people with eating disorders, which is ... probably not good.
content warning | eating disorders & disordered eating behaviours, diet culture, fatphobia, body image, self-harm, abuse, sexual assault
I'm on a Unhinged Girl Literary Fiction kick, I guess. Normally I don't do myself the disservice of reading about eating disorders - like for a lot of others out there, body image and unhealthy relationships with food are a rough thing to think about, and I generally prefer to dwell on other things. However, Thin Girls caught my eye while just scrolling through the e-library catalogue from the title alone, and I read it in one sitting. Oops.
But honestly? I enjoyed it, as much as you can truly enjoy a book that makes you uncomfortable to your very bones and makes you want to crawl out of your skin. It's a deeply fucked up book, and on second thought it falls into a lot of the stereotypes that a lot of eating disorder books fall into. (I thought too long and knocked it down a star because it really, really does, but you know what, at least this book isn't marketed towards teens?) I did find Rose and Lily compelling enough to have me keep reading, and their complicated sibling relationship and Rose's underlying sexuality crisis throughout the book made it more than just an Eating Disorder Novel.
Compelling as it was, I'd suggest not reading this if you have a history of eating disorders or disordered eating, because I can see this book being incredibly triggering. (God, but the title of this book would probably be enticing to people with eating disorders, which is ... probably not good.
content warning | eating disorders & disordered eating behaviours, diet culture, fatphobia, body image, self-harm, abuse, sexual assault
The first 86% of this book was so deeply upsetting. I can’t recommend it but I am glad I read it?
i feel like i’ve been punched in the gut after finishing this one. beautiful, honest, raw, heartbreaking, and a narrative that far too many of us can relate to in one way or another. highly recommend.
Very compelling and brought up a lot of issues that I think a lot of us are still dealing with.