Yara Zgheib. (2019). The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Yara Zgheib. 2019. The Girls At 17 Swann Street: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Yara Zgheib, The Girls At 17 Swann Street: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.

Yara Zgheib. The Girls At 17 Swann Street: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.

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     Yara is a reader, writer, traveler, yogi, lover of art, wine, black and white photographs, popcorn, and jazz. She was born in Lebanon and has pieces of her heart scattered over Paris, Beirut, London, Boston, and a few villages in Tuscany.
     She is the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street and No Land to Light On, and writes weekly on culture, art, travel, and philosophy on her blog: The non-Utilitarian. Her essays are prose, poetry, musings, on things neither practical nor useful, but true and beautiful. Essential.
     Her writing has also appeared in The Huffington Post, The Four Seasons Magazine, HOLIDAY Magazine, The European, Womanscape, HOME Magazine, The Idea List, France Forward, Espresso Economics, A Woman's Paris, The Socio/Log, and others.

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*A BookMovement Group Read*
**A People Pick for Best New Books**

Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life.
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.
Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
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     "A singular celebration of the lifesaving power of community and small gestures."

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   • source: Lisa Gardner, New York Times Bestselling author
   • content: "Grabbed me from the first page. If you are interested in compelling characters and/or complex issues, this is a must read."
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   • source: Susan Crandall, national bestselling author of The Myth of Perpetual Summer

   • content: "Written with spare, poetic grace, The Girls at 17 Swann Street is engaging, tragic and ultimately hopeful. It opened my eyes as well as my heart."
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     November 1, 2018
     

     DEBUT Anna, a young Frenchwoman, finds herself at a treatment facility in the St. Louis suburbs for those suffering from eating disorders. How did she get here, and how will she survive this grim situation? She had followed her loving husband, Matthias, when he took a new job in America. Already suffering from anorexia, the former ballerina is bored and lonely, and further denial seems to be the answer. Her life starts to spiral downhill, and when her weight reaches a frightening 88 pounds, she becomes a patient at 17 Swann Street. The girls at this facility regard food as the enemy and every bite as a battle, as the counselors firmly insist on their eating a bland but wholesome diet. Some gradually get better; some don't. Anna describes her inner feelings in a poetic voice, and her story is a compelling revelation of what starvation does to the brain. However, readers could have benefitted from learning more about Anna's childhood trauma, only vaguely alluded to here. VERDICT While young women make up the target readership for this gripping story, it will give anyone a clearer understanding of what it's like to look at life (and food) from the viewpoint of someone suffering from this terrible disease. [See Prepub Alert, 8/27/17.]--Leslie Patterson, Rehoboth, MA

     Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     December 1, 2018
     A French expat battles anorexia at an in-patient facility in the American Midwest.The plot of Zgheib's debut novel is very simple: Anna, a 26-year-old, checks into a treatment facility for anorexia at the behest of her beloved husband, who cannot continue to pretend she is not starving. It was not always like this: Once, Anna was a ballet dancer in Paris, where she and Matthias exuberantly fell in love. But then Anna got injured and stopped dancing, and Matthias took a job in St. Louis, and she followed, and now here she is in Bedroom 5 at 17 Swann St., amid a crew of other women, in varying states of distress. Some of them will get better. Some of them won't. "You're one of the lucky ones," one of the girls tells her, shortly after her arrival. "You have a reason to survive." This turns out to be true. Over her weeks of treatment--time is demarcated with medical reports, helpfully summarizing her weight and mental state--Anna fights treatment and then surrenders to it. Most of the novel is concerned with the details of her recovery, which are wrenching, in a quiet sort of way: the agony of eating half a bagel with cream cheese; the guilt over what she's put her family through. We also get flashbacks to her life before illness: childhood walks with her father; eating crepes on her wedding day. There are heavy hints of past traumas--a bad boyfriend; a dead brother and mother; a stagnant dance career--but mercifully, Zgheib doesn't spend much time connecting these too closely to Anna's current state, an acknowledgment that the disease, like Anna, is complicated. And yet the novel's greatest strength is its simplicity. There is no unusually dramatic backstory; Matthias is kind and relentlessly loving; Anna is, in all but her Frenchness, unexceptional. It's a story we've read before; it's moving nonetheless.A nuanced portrait of a woman struggling against herself.

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     December 1, 2018
     Anna Roux feels much older than her 26 years. Her hair, skin, bones, and organs have been deprived of nourishment for far too long, and her thoughts are muffled by a persistent fog of anxiety, irritability, and hunger. Still, when Anna agrees to enter an inpatient treatment facility for anorexia nervosa, she's terrified to confront the demon she's carried inside for so long. Finding comfort and support in their shared struggles, Anna and her fellow patients at 17 Swann Street embark on the most difficult journey of their lives. This powerful and poetic debut by Fulbright scholar Zgheib dives into the confusing, desperate, and heart-wrenching world of recovery from disordered eating. Zgheib never lets Anna's diagnosis define her but convincingly allows it to inform every decision her character makes. Instead of tying up Anna's journey with a neat bow, the novel's resolution is tentative, hopeful, and realistic. Zgheib's lyrical, dream-like style, the perfect match for Anna's alternately foggy and focused thought processes, will resonate with fans of Wally Lamb's and Anne Tyler's novels and Augusten Burroughs' memoirs.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.
Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile...

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