Laurie Halse Anderson discusses and signs her latest book Wintergirls March 22, 2009

I swear to be the skinniest girl in school. Skinnier than you."

Lia and Cassie are best friends. Or they were. Now Cassie is dead, the winner (or is it loser?) in their contest to see who can be the skinniest. Lia is haunted by her friend’s restless spirit and the knowledge that Cassie called her the night she died. 33 times. Lia never picked up and now the voice of a dead girl is waiting on her phone.

Wintergirls is an intense, emotionally wrenching exploration of Lia’s descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.

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