The book Wintergirls overall is a good book it deals with an issue that for many young girls and very few boys deal with growing up in today’s society. Being a teen and not having positive people or someone to talk to in general can be hard this book from what I have read is very good because it breaks down every little detail of the character Lia who is left behind to think about her life after her best friend which whom she competes to be the thinnest dies……this book not only talk and reveals the big picture of eating disorders but it also details Lia behavior so if you know someone with this disorder after reading this book you more than likely will have a better understanding of what is going on I would recommend this novel to another person because it is the real deal I like how they introduce the internet and how there are actual websites that support this obsession with being thin this is a mental disease that affect million of teens …millions of teens abuse prescription drugs to as a way to escape the overall message the author is trying to bring to her story is unique and it almost seem as though she could have dealt with this personally. By telling the book from Lia's head — and the haunting from the dead best friend this book is on a whole other level and it just puts on blast all the different sick communities out there in the world that support being sick and it is sad over all I’d recommend this novel.