*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.
And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the Girls at 17 Swann Street..
Every flavor induces guilt.
Every bite causes anxiety.
Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie
Julia, always hungry.
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.
There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds.
Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri.
Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.
Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough.
The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists\' list.
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. *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
