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Thin Girls
by Diana Clarke
I couldn’t put this book down. This book focuses on twins Rose and Lily, who both develop unhealthy relationships with eating, albeit opposite relationships. Rose stops eating, and Lily can’t stop eating. After a year of living in an underfunded eating disorder clinic, Rose decides she has to get out even if she’s not better, because Lily has begun a relationship with an abusive man who turns her on to dieting. Suddenly, Lily and Rose are starting to look more alike again.
Diana Clarke’s prose is so unique. The book is Rose’s inner monologue, which doesn’t always make sense, and often jumps backward in time and to random facts she has acquired through reading. The book explores Rose’s issues with her body, not just in regard to her weight but also how to feel comfortable existing as an individual when there is another body in the world that looks like hers. It is also a story of how society’s expectations even beyond weight, such as compulsory heterosexuality, can be the impetus to the type of self-controlling behaviors characteristic of anorexia.
I look forward to reading Clarke’s future work.
Diana Clarke’s prose is so unique. The book is Rose’s inner monologue, which doesn’t always make sense, and often jumps backward in time and to random facts she has acquired through reading. The book explores Rose’s issues with her body, not just in regard to her weight but also how to feel comfortable existing as an individual when there is another body in the world that looks like hers. It is also a story of how society’s expectations even beyond weight, such as compulsory heterosexuality, can be the impetus to the type of self-controlling behaviors characteristic of anorexia.
I look forward to reading Clarke’s future work.