anorexia

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff


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Apr 1, 2013

Hannah is haunted.  Her best friend Lillian—still thin and wasted from the anorexia that killed her—follows Hannah around, commenting on her fake friends, her occasionally grisly job processing police photographs, and especially Finny Boone, a seemingly dangerous boy with a kind heart that Hannah can’t help but be drawn to.

Lillian is especially fascinated by the string of recent murders around town; dead girls are being found in the local park holding homemade paper hearts, surrounded by delicate arrangements of cheap toys, tacky decorations and throwaway party favors.  Together, the