![]() ![]() While Lia and her mother are all but estranged, she has a younger sister who looks up to her and whom she loves. Except what Cassie really wants isn’t to punish Lia, it’s to bring her into “dangerland”, and then give her that final push over the edge, so they can be together again. It knows exactly what to say to hurt her. The ghost may or may not be a manifestation of Lia’s conscience, but whatever it is, it’s terrifying. ![]() Lia’s struggle with both her eating disorder and her guilt is heightened when Cassie’s ghost appears to her at night. Their friendship had disintegrated by then, though, partly because of the pressure from their parents, so Lia didn’t pick up. Cassie is dead – but on the night she went on her final binge, she called Lia thirty-three times. Lia, after therapy for her anorexia, lives with her father and stepmother. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls begins with the fallout of that promise. ![]() They were going to do whatever it took to be completely in control of their bodies, to be thin, to be thinner, to be perfect. They had each other’s backs, they shared secrets, and they made a promise sealed in blood. Lia Overbrook and Cassie Parrish were once best friends. ![]()
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