Perfect by Natasha Friend is about a girl named Isabelle Lee who is 13 and suffers from an eating disorder. She was caught trying to make herself throw up by her little sister "Ape Face" and had to join an eating disorder and body image therapy group. An A-Ha moment that my character had was when she realized that nobody is perfect. She states in the book, "in she walked: Ashley Barnum. The Ashley Barnum...First of all, the name Ashley Barnum. Royalty, right?.. She has blue eyes, surfer girl hair, and perfect thighs... Captain of the field hockey team...voted most popular girl." She was confused on why Ashley was even in a therapy group but she later became friends with her and Isabelle realized that even the most perfect girl had her flaws.
I feel like teens can relate to this book because they are beginning to compare themselves with these people that are what they consider perfect and they begin to start an unhealthy habit of trying to be like them but it's really only hurting themselves. Teens need to know that even those perfect people aren't so perfect and this book can teach them that.
I think that your post is very true nobody can be perfect to everyone because everyone has different standards of perfect. :)
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ReplyDeleteoops sorry that was not supposed to post twice. :)
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