In the tradition of "Girl, Interrupted" and "Autobiography of a Face", Lori Gottlieb presents her dramatic, provocative memoir as an anorexic. Based on Gottlieb's personal diaries, "Stick Figure" exposes the rarely observed world of a teen being treated by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and psychological, all as obsessed about her gaining weight as she is about losing it.
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In the tradition of "Girl, Interrupted" and "Autobiography of a Face", Lori Gottlieb presents her dramatic, provocative memoir as an anorexic. Based on Gottlieb's personal diaries, "Stick Figure" exposes the rarely observed world of a teen being treated by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and psychological, all as obsessed about her gaining weight as she is about losing it.
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The book does an excellent job at creating a sense of confusion under the inability to put the book down. I would definitely read it again, especially because after reading it fully I still can't tell the protagonist and antagonist!