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    The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel
    The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel
    The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel

    Written by Yara Zgheib

    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

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    "[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection" — Booklist, starred review

    **A People Pick for Best New Books**

    Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life.

    The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists’ list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.

    Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.

    Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.

    Praise for The Girls at 17 Swann Street:

    "A singular celebration of the lifesaving power of community and small gestures." — New York Times Book Review

    "Powerful and poetic...Zgheib's lyrical, dreamlike style...will resonate with fans of Wally Lamb's and Anne Tyler's novels and Augusten Burrough's memoirs." — Booklist

    "Heartbreaking and beautiful...a brave book, stark in its realism, yet tempered by its lyrical prose." — Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Daughter

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781250314185
    Author

    Yara Zgheib

    Yara Zgheib is the author of No Land to Light On and the critically acclaimed The Girls at 17 Swann Street, which was a People Pick for Best New Books and a BookMovement Group Read. She is a Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University and a PhD in international affairs in diplomacy from Centre d’Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques in Paris. Learn more at YaraZgheib.com.

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      So very good!!! I Highly recommend!! Narrator is excellent too!!