Personally, I did not find the book jovial or uplifting. However, I can understand the arduous trials the narrator went through. I would recommend this memoir to people who can relate with disorders such as anorexia, depression, and self harm. Also, people who want to experience how a disorder such as depression can make a person act and think. Nevertheless, I would not recommend this book. It’s a sad rollercoaster. The times when the narrator has great day, the roller coaster goes up. However, the author always seems to go crashing down on her on-going ride. The author describes an instances where she cuts “ for a bad day in B1” or the author “cuts for the wrong answer on a test”(61). The authors trivial excuses for cutting makes readers
