Wintergirls by Anderson Laurie Halse

Author:Anderson, Laurie Halse [Anderson, Laurie Halse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Contemporary, Psychology
ISBN: 9780606151955
Google: 56cJN2Pc3GAC
Amazon: 014241557X
Barnesnoble: 014241557X
Goodreads: 5152478
Publisher: Speak
Published: 2009-03-19T06:00:00+00:00

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I’m sure she’s waiting for me in the family room, temperature at fifty-eight degrees, her lecture notes neatly arranged with my faults and mistakes listed in order of priority. She has charts to prove everything I do is wrong, and that my only hope is to allow them to insert her stem cells in my marrow so she can grow a new her dressed in my skin.

But, no. She’s not in the family room.

She’s waiting for me in the library, which normal people call the “living room.”

Nope. Miles of dusted bookshelves, cardiology journals stacked on the coffee table. No Dr. Marrigan.

Not in the kitchen.

Not on the treadmill in the basement. Not on the elliptical or lifting weights or working her abs.

“Mom?”

The pipes in the basement shudder and the hot-water tank fires up. She must be taking a shower.

I go up two flights and tiptoe across the polished floor of her bedroom, sloooooowly turn the doorknob, and open her bathroom door a crack. A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

I close the door.

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