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Title details for Light Enough to Float by Lauren Seal - Available

Light Enough to Float

by Lauren Seal
Shannon Tyo
Audiobook
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Deeply moving and authentic, this debut novel in verse—winner of a Schneider Family Book Award Honor—follows teenage Evie through her eating disorder treatment and recovery―a perfect choice for readers of Wintergirls and Louder Than Hunger.
Evie has just barely acknowledged that she has an eating disorder when she’s admitted to an inpatient treatment facility. Now her days are filled with calorie loading, therapy sessions, and longing—for home, for control, and for the time before her troubles began. As the winter of her treatment goes on, she gradually begins to face her fears and to love herself again, with the help of caregivers and of peers who are fighting their own disordered-eating battles. This insightful, beautiful novel will touch every reader and offer hope and understanding to those who need it most.

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    October 8, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593945643
      • File size: 96147 KB
      • Duration: 03:20:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Shannon Tyo delivers this audiobook's author's note, briefly describing Seal's real-life struggles with anorexia, clinical depression, suicidal ideation, and skin picking--all of which started during her teen years. Tyo tempers this opening with the author's understanding of and respect for resilient teens who currently face these challenges. Once the story begins, Tyo keeps listeners keenly aware of 14-year-old Evie's physical and emotional struggles. Tyo's narration captures the rhythms of its novel-in-verse structure and gives power to the spare text. Her stresses on poetic images and sensory details create poignancy and painful intensity that allow listeners to fully engage with Evie's denial, hospitalization, and, finally, hope. Tyo's depictions of Evie's fellow patients and family members add to the audio's complexity. S.W. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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