Paperweight

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4.5
31 reviews
eBook
320
Pages
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About this eBook

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
31 reviews
Dj Mitchell
27 September 2015
I thought it was a great book, a quick read. I'm not sure I liked how the book ends leaving me questioning some things but all in all I enjoyed it.
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A Google user
2 October 2018
Stevie has an average life in her small Georgia town. Though she doesn't have many friends, she does have her brother, Joshua, who's less than a year older.
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Bryan Fetrow
20 June 2019
It would mack a grown man cry. best book in the universe.
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About the author

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.

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