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My Sister's Bones
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My Sister's Bones Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Hanauer, Cathi

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Against a backdrop of malls and emerald-carpet lawns, Cassie Weinstein is slowly killing herself. And there seems to be nothing her younger sister Billie can do to stop her. In this eloquently written first novel, "(Hanauer) gives power and dignity to the subject of anorexia and presents us with a book that is funny and idiosyncratic, too" ("The Village Voice").

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  • Title My Sister's Bones
  • Author Hanauer, Cathi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delta, New York:
  • Date 1997-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0385317042_new
  • ISBN 9780385317047 / 0385317042
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.52 x 0.69 in (21.59 x 14.02 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

At sixteen, Billie Weinstein has plenty of problems: She's the only Jewish girl living in the all-Italian neighborhood of West Berry, NJ; she's trying hard to please her know-it-all father who listens to opera at full volume and drives full speed, and her too-accommodating mother who is either taking care of Billie's father, or Billie and her sister, or the two dogs; and on top of everything else, her older sister Cassie goes off to college, leaving Billie to fend for herself.And now Billie's studying for the SATs. The task her father has given her is to learn twenty words a day, read the New York Times at least twice a week and watch Masterpiece Theatre whenever he tells her to, mostly because he likes it. Then Billie discovers her sister's secret: Cassie is battling anorexia and Billie's parents excuse Cassie's weight loss as stress due to the competitive atmosphere at college. Billie knows something is drastically wrong with her sister; something that could be fatal.This novel is touching and funny and moving, and it got great reviews. And Billie Weinstein is so wry and humorous a protagonist, she's the kind of girl every woman wishes she'd had as a best friend growing up.From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the publisher

Cathi Hanauer has written for such national publications as McCall's, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen, where she currently writes the monthly advice column, "Relating." She lives in New York City with her husband and baby daughter.


From the Hardcover edition.

First line

A week before Thanksgiving-three months after she leaves for college-my sister calls on the phone in our room.

From the jacket flap

At sixteen, Billie Weinstein has plenty of problems: She's the only Jewish girl living in the all-Italian neighborhood of West Berry, NJ; she's trying hard to please her know-it-all father who listens to opera at full volume and drives full speed, and her too-accommodating mother who is either taking care of Billie's father, or Billie and her sister, or the two dogs; and on top of everything else, her older sister Cassie goes off to college, leaving Billie to fend for herself.


And now Billie's studying for the SATs. The task her father has given her is to learn twenty words a day, read the New York Times at least twice a week and watch Masterpiece Theatre whenever he tells her to, mostly because he likes it. Then Billie discovers her sister's secret: Cassie is battling anorexia and Billie's parents excuse Cassie's weight loss as stress due to the competitive atmosphere at college. Billie knows something is drastically wrong with her sister; something that could be fatal.


This novel is touching and funny and moving, and it got great reviews. And Billie Weinstein is so wry and humorous a protagonist, she's the kind of girl every woman wishes she'd had as a best friend growing up.

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"This is a poignant but also lively and humorous novel, with characters so believable you expect them to rise up off the page."

-- Elizabeth Berg, author of Talk Before Sleep


From the Hardcover edition.

About the author

Cathi Hanauer is the author of three novels--My Sister's Bones, Sweet Ruin, and Gone--and is the editor of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Bitch in the House. A former columnist for Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen, she has written for The New York Times, Elle, Self, Real Simple, and other magazines. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband, New York Times "Modern Love" editor Daniel Jones, and their daughter and son.

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