Paperweight

Name: Paperweight
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Meg Haston
ISBN: 9780062398208

Author: Meg Haston

Narrator: Mandy Siegfried

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 07/07/2015

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

This emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls.Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert.Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at meal time, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she’s worked so hard to avoid.Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn’t plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh’s death—the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she, too, will end her life.Paperweight follows seventeen-year-old Stevie’s journey as she struggles not only with a life-threatening eating disorder, but with the question of whether she can ever find absolution for the mistakes of her past…and whether she truly deserves to.

About Meg Haston

Meg Haston is the author of How to Rock Braces and Glasses and How to Rock Best Friends and Frenemies. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where she writes and works as a counselor in an independent school. Paperweight is her first young adult novel.

About Mandy Siegfried

Mandy Siegfried has worked at theaters in New York, on and off Broadway, and around the country; her film work includes School of Rock, Winter Passing, Liberty Maine, The Out-of-Towners, and St. Andrew's Girls.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on July 14, 2015

I have written and rewritten this sentence five times. As an eating disorder survivor and as an aspiring psychologist, I should have all the words to talk about Paperweight, a novel about a seventeen-year-old girl living in an inpatient eating disorder facility. But even after six hours away from th......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 13, 2018

THIS BOOK WAS FANTASTIC. I absolutely loved Paperweight by Meg Haston. As someone who's suffered from anorexia since they were eleven, I only just realized that I had yet to read a fiction novel about eating disorders, and Paperweight did not disappoint. I'm amazed at how much of an accurate represen......more

Goodreads review by Christy on November 22, 2017

4 stars I feel really depressed after finishing this... not the ending per se, but the entire story. Some parts just hit a little too close. I struggled with the MC. I wasn't sure if I liked her most of the book, but there were some fantastic side characters (Ashely I adored, Josh was great). The bo......more

Goodreads review by Lala on May 23, 2017

This was an extremely well done story.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on April 12, 2017

Desde que lo vi en la librería me cautivó por su trama y cuando al fin pudo tenerlo en mis manos descubrí que no me había equivocado, una historia bien hecha que nos muestra algo vaga algunas veces, la manera de vivir y de adaptarse al cambio, y la transformación interna que conlleva el salir adelan......more