Jen Petro-Roy
Autor(a) de P.S. I Miss You
Obras por Jen Petro-Roy
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This is so sweet and sad and touching but I was not convinced by the voice. Some of the phrasing and word choices felt too adult and writerly. I do know kids are smart and capable of surprising stuff, but I felt that the tone an 11yo would take with her sister would be more relaxed.
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the narrative voice, and the focus on sisterly love. It was a very emotional, cathartic read. I would recommend to anyone who likes books about family, or who wants a good cry.
{Stand-alone. YA/ children's, eating disorder treatment, anorexia, fiction, semi-autobiographical}(2019)
First person point of view story about a twelve year old with anorexia in treatment centre.
Not my usual fare but it was a book bullet and I know someone who went through something similar so I gave it a go. The author also went through something similar when she was eighteen although this book is aimed at younger readers. Each chapter is a journal entry about a day in Riley's life starting with her first day in a treatment centre and chronicling her progress as she first resents her stay and gradually comes to accept her diagnosis and then to want to recover although there are setbacks along the way, both for her and for the other girls in the centre.
Knowing someone who has a disorder, this book tugged on my heartstrings several times, giving me an insight into what might be going through their head. Riley's parents came through as unsympathetic, except towards the end, but what do you do when your child has a problem you can't solve for them? (You get them the help they need, obviously, but how are you supposed to react?) Of course, the book is written from Riley's point of view and it is sad finding out how she thinks, believing she's worthless and no-one likes her; not her friends or her family or her classmates. From that perspective, I found this quite powerful, emotionally; consequently, I'm on the fence as to whether I would give it to a young person with anorexia to read. It would, though, help to reassure them that they are not alone with these feelings and issues.
October 2021
4 stars… (mais)
First person point of view story about a twelve year old with anorexia in treatment centre.
Not my usual fare but it was a book bullet and I know someone who went through something similar so I gave it a go. The author also went through something similar when she was eighteen although this book is aimed at younger readers. Each chapter is a journal entry about a day in Riley's life starting with her first day in a treatment centre and chronicling her progress as she first resents her stay and gradually comes to accept her diagnosis and then to want to recover although there are setbacks along the way, both for her and for the other girls in the centre.
I can’t let myself cry. That’s what Mom wants me to do. She wants me to collapse in exhaustion and admit I need help. She wants me to admit I’m sad and hungry and tired. To let other people feed me like I’m a baby and they’re waiting with a spoonful of mushed peas.
Mushed peas are gross. Food is gross.
Mom thinks that once I’m locked behind these doors, everything’s going to be all right. Like they can give me a magic pill, or a course of antibiotics with the side effect of “recovery.” Things will go back to normal and I’ll be the old Riley again.
I don’t know who “the old Riley” is anymore, though. And there are no antibiotics that will get rid of my thoughts, which are way too powerful to be silenced. They tell me I’m not good enough. They tell me to be skinnier and prettier. To run more and eat less.
They tell me that everything about me is wrong.
Those thoughts are part of me now. These people here, the doctors and the nurses and the counselors and the nutritionists—they can’t take them away. I don’t want them to take them away.
I’d be fat then.
I don’t want to be fat.
Then I’d be nothing at all.
Knowing someone who has a disorder, this book tugged on my heartstrings several times, giving me an insight into what might be going through their head. Riley's parents came through as unsympathetic, except towards the end, but what do you do when your child has a problem you can't solve for them? (You get them the help they need, obviously, but how are you supposed to react?) Of course, the book is written from Riley's point of view and it is sad finding out how she thinks, believing she's worthless and no-one likes her; not her friends or her family or her classmates. From that perspective, I found this quite powerful, emotionally; consequently, I'm on the fence as to whether I would give it to a young person with anorexia to read. It would, though, help to reassure them that they are not alone with these feelings and issues.
October 2021
4 stars… (mais)
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Meanwhile, Evie begins to realize that her friendship with new girl June might be something more, but she's afraid of what everyone will think. Finally, she tells her friends Maggie and Katie, and they help her get to St. Augustine's - where Evie gets a terrible shock, and the truth, finally, from her parents.
Afterward, Evie finds the strength to question authority, be her authentic self, and honor her sister publicly.
The Morgan family is coded white; June is dark-skinned, and she and her mother are atheist.
See also: How to Find What You're Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani; Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
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It was like one of those pictures of a snake eating its own tail. Or that optical illusion with the staircases that never stop going upward. No one ever apologized and the yelling never stopped. (29)
We need to save you from the Land of Blouses and Slacks! We need to return you to the Kingdom of Jeans and T-shirts! (43)
...I caught Mom crying again. I didn't feel bad for her, though. If she's sad that you're not here, she shouldn't have made you feel like you don't belong. (97)
Having June [at our house] made me look at things differently, though....Mom doesn't let me read about zombies, but I hear the resurrection story every single year. It doesn't make sense. (104)
I wish our religion wasn't so mean and judgy. I want to tell everyone the truth. (153)
...when I'm talking to June, I love what I have to say. (161)
What if I want a different God than the one who'll hate me for who I like? (199)
Why don't we thank people as much as we thank God? Maybe it would make the world a better place. (236)
It didn't feel like me saying the words. I felt like someone else, someone proud of who she was.
Someone who wasn't ashamed of what other people thought.
I acted the way I wanted to be. Because maybe then, this bravery will start to feel more natural. (285)
It happened. It'll never be over, but it did happen. (296)
It was the first time I'd asked an honest question and they'd given me an honest answer in a long time. Maybe ever. (305)… (mais)