My Sister's Bones Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Cathi Hanauer
Against a backdrop of malls and emerald-carpet lawns, Cassie Weinstein is slowly killing herself. And there seems to be nothing her younger sister Billie can do to stop her. In this eloquently written first novel, "(Hanauer) gives power and dignity to the subject of anorexia and presents us with a book that is funny and idiosyncratic, too" ("The Village Voice").
Summary
First line
A week before Thanksgiving-three months after she leaves for college-my sister calls on the phone in our room.
From the jacket flap
At sixteen, Billie Weinstein has plenty of problems: She's the only Jewish girl living in the all-Italian neighborhood of West Berry, NJ; she's trying hard to please her know-it-all father who listens to opera at full volume and drives full speed, and her too-accommodating mother who is either taking care of Billie's father, or Billie and her sister, or the two dogs; and on top of everything else, her older sister Cassie goes off to college, leaving Billie to fend for herself.
And now Billie's studying for the SATs. The task her father has given her is to learn twenty words a day, read the New York Times at least twice a week and watch Masterpiece Theatre whenever he tells her to, mostly because he likes it. Then Billie discovers her sister's secret: Cassie is battling anorexia and Billie's parents excuse Cassie's weight loss as stress due to the competitive atmosphere at college. Billie knows something is drastically wrong with her sister; something that could be fatal.
This novel is touching and funny and moving, and it got great reviews. And Billie Weinstein is so wry and humorous a protagonist, she's the kind of girl every woman wishes she'd had as a best friend growing up.
Details
- Title My Sister's Bones
- Author Cathi Hanauer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Delta, New York:
- Date 1997-11-10
- ISBN 9780385317047 / 0385317042
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.52 x 0.69 in (21.59 x 14.02 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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