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MONKEY TAMING 
Author:   Judith Fathallah  
RRP:   $19.95
Online Price :  $17.96
10+ Copy Price :  $16.96         
20+ Copy Price :  $15.96
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Older Novel 
Age:   12+ 
ISBN:   9780099488453
Category:   Eating Disorders
Published:   6/07/2006
Availability:   Out Of Print
This title is no longer in print and is not in stock. You may still order this book and while it is not available currently, you can register an order. If it reprints within 2 years we will automatically supply your order. After 2 years your backorder for Out of Print titles will be deleted, unless you advise us otherwise.


DESCRIPTION:

"You've eaten too much, you fat pig." When Jessica was thirteen years old, she met the Monkey. The Monkey lived inside her: a driving, fiery voice telling her that thinness was the only way. The only way to be safe, to be good, to be acceptable and above all, to escape from the cold, looming threat of approaching adulthood. Jessica listened to the Monkey, and it consumed her. This is the illuminating story of a teenage girl's wanderings in darkness: the spiral down into madness, the terrible realities of an adolescent psychiatric unit, and the stark choice that she must either tame her monster - or die. Through memory, reflection, and enduring black humour, Jessica makes a tenuous peace with the world, and with her emerging adult self.



 

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