Ellen Hayes read and liked Julia March's review of Wintergirls:

"Lia is fighting a war with herself and food everyday. When her best friend Cassie is found dead alone in a motel room she now must convince everyone that it will not throw her over the edge. She now weighs 95 pounds and even after two stays in a trea...more Lia is fighting a war with herself and food everyday. When her best friend Cassie is found dead alone in a motel room she now must convince everyone that it will not throw her over the edge. She now weighs 95 pounds and even after two stays in a treatment facility she still feels fat. In a world of wintergirls where she is stuck frozen among the living she must make a choice between fighting to live or giving in to her frozen world where she has trapped herself.

This beautifully written, emotionally wrenching novel takes you into the haunting world of anorexia and the paths toward recovery. Laurie Halse Anderson could not have timed this novel any better with what a society full of girls today our stuggling with daily. (less) "