Alyssa B. Sheinmel
She feels like a creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are really made out of stone, that her skin is really as thin as glass, that her hair is brittle as straw, that her tears have dried up so that she cries only salt. Maybe thatâ€™s why it doesnâ€™t hurt when she presses hard enough to begin bleeding: it doesnâ€™t hurt, because sheâ€™s not real anymore.,Sethie Weiss is hungry, a mean, angry kind of hunger that feels like a piece of glass in her belly. Sheâ€™s managed to get down to 111 pounds and knows that with a little more hard workâ€”a few more meals skipped, a few more snacks vomited awayâ€”she can force the number on the scale even lower. She will work on her body the same way she worked to get her perfect grades, to finish her college applications early, to get her first kiss from Shaw, the boy she loves, the boy who isnâ€™t quite her boyfriend.,Sethie will not allow herself one slip, not one bad day, not one break in concentration. Her body is there for her to work on when everything and everyone elseâ€”her best friend, her schoolwork, and Shawâ€”are gone.
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The Stone Girl