YA to be published!
I'm excited to share details about a young adult novel I've written that will be published next year:
From Publisher's Weekly:
Stephanie ElliotStephanie Elliot’s SAD PERFECT, a love story about an unnamed 16-year-old girl with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, an eating disorder with its own new category in the DSM-V, which neither she nor her new boyfriend fully understand but which controls their lives in increasingly extreme ways, to Margaret Ferguson at Margaret Ferguson Books, by Adriann Ranta at Wolf Literary Services (NA).
About the book:
This is the story of an unnamed 16-year-old girl with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, an eating disorder with its own new category in the DSM-V. Ambitiously written in the second person, this is a heartbreaking, visceral perspective on disease, love, and recovery written with powerful lyrical strength.
Our main character has always struggled with ARFID, a disease she and her family don’t really understand. She can eat the good stuff, chips and candy and ice cream, but she can’t eat the stuff that keeps her alive, salads and pizza and meat. It’s like she has a monster in her throat, one that dictates what she can eat, when she can see her friends, and who she can date.
Then she falls crazy-mad in love with Ben. She hides her disorder from him, pretending that she’s fine, she’s just not hungry. She stops taking her medication because she’s happy now, she doesn’t need it. And the monster starts ruining her life.
She starts coping in more and more extreme ways, the monster tightening its grip on her throat, making her say mean things to Ben while she wastes away from malnutrition. Then an ex-boyfriend accuses her of attempting suicide, and her parents commit her to the Crazy House.
It’s only when everything seems lost that she can start piecing her life back together again. She finds love and support in unexpected places, and discovers that the real Crazy House might have been the place she’d called home.
Like Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places, Sad Perfect is a story about finding love through disease. It’s about imperfect families, love taken for granted, and how internal strength can conquer any monster.
From Publisher's Weekly:
Stephanie ElliotStephanie Elliot’s SAD PERFECT, a love story about an unnamed 16-year-old girl with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, an eating disorder with its own new category in the DSM-V, which neither she nor her new boyfriend fully understand but which controls their lives in increasingly extreme ways, to Margaret Ferguson at Margaret Ferguson Books, by Adriann Ranta at Wolf Literary Services (NA).
About the book:
This is the story of an unnamed 16-year-old girl with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, an eating disorder with its own new category in the DSM-V. Ambitiously written in the second person, this is a heartbreaking, visceral perspective on disease, love, and recovery written with powerful lyrical strength.
Our main character has always struggled with ARFID, a disease she and her family don’t really understand. She can eat the good stuff, chips and candy and ice cream, but she can’t eat the stuff that keeps her alive, salads and pizza and meat. It’s like she has a monster in her throat, one that dictates what she can eat, when she can see her friends, and who she can date.
Then she falls crazy-mad in love with Ben. She hides her disorder from him, pretending that she’s fine, she’s just not hungry. She stops taking her medication because she’s happy now, she doesn’t need it. And the monster starts ruining her life.
She starts coping in more and more extreme ways, the monster tightening its grip on her throat, making her say mean things to Ben while she wastes away from malnutrition. Then an ex-boyfriend accuses her of attempting suicide, and her parents commit her to the Crazy House.
It’s only when everything seems lost that she can start piecing her life back together again. She finds love and support in unexpected places, and discovers that the real Crazy House might have been the place she’d called home.
Like Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places, Sad Perfect is a story about finding love through disease. It’s about imperfect families, love taken for granted, and how internal strength can conquer any monster.
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