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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Written by Steven Levenkron
Narrated by Barbara Caruso
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Just looking at Katie Roskova, you’d think she had it all: she was pretty, popular, an A-student at an exclusive private school, and on her way to becoming a champion figure skater. But there was another Katie, the one she hid from the world, who was having trouble dealing with the mounting pressures of her young life. And it was this Katie who, with no other means of expression available to her, reacted to her overbearing mother, her absent father, her unforgiving schedule, and her oblivious classmates by turning her self-doubt into self-hatred. And into self-mutilation. In his previous novel, The Best Little Girl in the World, Steven Levenkron brought insight, expertise, and sensitivity to the painful subject of anorexia nervosa. Now he applies these same talents to demystifying a condition that is just as heartbreaking, and becoming more common everyday. Through his depiction of Katie’s self-mutilating behavior, she is called “a cutter” by her peers, and her triumphant road to recovery, he offers a compelling profile of a young girl in trouble, and much-needed hope to the growing numbers who suffer from this shocking syndrome.
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Reviews for The Luckiest Girl in the World
Rating: 3.567307661538462 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
52 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was expecting this book to be really cheesy, and it was in spots, but in general it was better than I expected. The descriptions of the mental process you go through were pretty spot-on for my experience (it might be different for other people, of course). I'm all for anything that increases awareness of self-injury, even if it's kind of cliched. I appreciated the fact that the ending admitted that it was something she would have to continue dealing with. A word of warning: there are a couple of scenes near the beginning that have the potential to be very triggering.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is about girls who have trouble socializing and making friends because of their pushy parents. I recommend people read this book if they self-mutilize themselves or people who are interested in people hurting themselves. This book will never want you to stop reading. For me I couldn't stop because my mind wanted to see what she was feeling. I could not because i have never and will never cut myself. If i knew that this book was about self-destruction then I wouldnt even have picked it up from the shelf. (192-192)