I read this a while back so I don't remember that much, but this was a really strange book where the main character has delusions of becoming an angel to justify her disordered eating habits. The story is told through Mercy's eyes, so you can really see just how warped her perspective of herself and her situation is. The book was really short and fairly simple in how it dealt with eating disorders, and everything was resolved pretty quickly. ( )

Waste. Of. Time. ( )

Great book! ( )

Um...I have NO CLUE what I want to say about this book. It's very different from the things I usually read and i can't tell what it was trying to say exactly. I think this is a book that could be taken many different ways. There is the story of the troubled young girl who has lost many things and feels it's her responsibility to keep her family happy. Then there's all the political issues and there's the story about anorexia. I'm not sure what I take away from this book.

I didn't really like the way it ended. I mean I did but it seemed a little unresolved because I never found out what had happened after Suzy-Q's "death" or where Mercy had been. It all got very confusing at the end too. I couldn't tell who was who because the author suddenly switched how she was referring to everyone. Mom and dad were suddenly Nancy and George and Mercy had no name.

I guess I didn't really like this book. I'm still not sure what to say about it. I give this book 3 stars. ( )

Funny and painfully honest, this novel tells the story of anorexia from the viewpoint of Mercy, 15, who denies she has an eating disorder. Mercy is becoming an angel. She can feel her wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. They itch. Sometimes she even hears them rustling. And angels don't need to eat. So Mercy has decided she doesn't need to either. She is not sick, doesn't suffer from anorexia, is not trying to kill herself. She is an angel, and angels simply don't need food.