Six years after Cassie and Lia resolved to become the skinniest
girls in their school, Cassie dies. Unable to bear the sadness and
guilt following Cassie's death, Lia spirals deeper into her own
eating disorder.
Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile
bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the
thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life -
and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and
feeling guilty for not being able to help save her. In her most
powerfully moving novel since Speak, awardwinning author Laurie
Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to
recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most
important thing of all - hope.
Laurie Halse Anderson, geboren 1961 in Potsdam, lebt in New York. Sie studierte Sprachen und Sprachwissenschaft und war eine erfolgreiche Journalistin, bevor sie beschloss, halbtags als Buchhändlerin zu arbeiten, um genügend Zeit für ihr literarisches Schreiben zu haben.
