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Edgewise (2008)

by Jan Stites(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

143920487X (ISBN13: 9781439204870)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Booksurge Publishing

review 1: A book about a woman who deals with the emotional pain in her life by cutting herself. When she can no longer hide her issues at work, she loses her job as a teacher, and enrolls in an outpatient hospital/therapy group. Although the cutting was difficult to read about, its not why I gave the book only three stars. I just didn't feel like the characters in the story had hope - it was a downer for me.
review 2: I really enjoyed this book. For me, it was a read-too-far-into-the-night-book, the kind that keeps pulling you away from less interesting but mandatory things like work, cooking meals, helping with homework, Christmas shopping, etc. It's a story about a white, middle class woman who is deeply troubled--she cuts herself repeatedly to release the pain o... moref deep wounds from childhood--but is determinedly cheerful. She has a breakdown in front of her students and is obliged (by a fairly unsympathetic administration/union agreement) to take a leave of absence to "get well". Having dropped her insurance in favor of making the mortgage payments on her condo, she is forced to go to a free clinic in the inner city to fight her demons and, hopefully, get her job back. It is a rough beginning for Simone, but her journey takes her to places she never would have gone otherwise. If you like a story that is about the love, grit and humor that it takes to survive and survive well, this is a book you should add to your "to read" list! less

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