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The Stone Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
She feels like a
creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are
really made out of stone, that her skin is really as thin as glass, that
her hair is brittle as straw, that her tears have dried up so that she
cries only salt. Maybe that's why it doesn't hurt when she presses hard
enough to begin bleeding: it doesn't hurt, because she's not real
anymore.
High school senior Sarah Beth
(Sethie) Weiss is disciplined. She has never cut a class in her life,
has never had a grade below a B+, and has always been a favorite among
her teachers. Her college applications are finished and she only ate six
Ritz crackers today. But even on days when Sethie needs to eat more,
there's always the toilet to make up for her mistakes. Sethie manages to
get down to 104, and maybe if she works just a little bit harder,
becomes a little more disciplined, she can get below 100. Truth be told,
Sethie has more to worry about than her relationship with her body; but
the deeper she descends into her disorder, the smaller her world gets
and the harder it is to see her way out.
When 11-year-old D loses his mother to breast cancer, he finds himself taken in by an
elderly white woman, Mrs. Martin. D loves to watch birds and, while in
the park, is amazed to find an injured bird that can talk. He takes it
home and soon learns there are malevolent forces inhabiting the region
beneath Prospect Park and they are hunting for the bird; Nuru is a life
force that has been kept hostage by the earthbound spirits who are
ghosts of soldiers that died in the Revolutionary War. Nuru's mission is
to guide the ship that will carry the souls of the dead back to her
realm. D has been chosen as Nuru's host, and must carry the bird from
Brooklyn to the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan where the dead
await deliverance.
4 comments:
I got The Stone Girl also. I haven't seen many people picking it up, but I do look forward to your review!
Both look like awesome reads - Ship of Souls sounds like one for my TBR list.
Great set! Ship of Souls looks interesting. Hope you enjoy!
My IMM
Okay, I need to read Stone Girl :| It sound like my cup of tea! What a great IMM! :) I hope you enjoy your books.
Here's my IMM for this week
And I also have an international giveaway going on. (:
Happy reading!
Vicky
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