02954cam a2200313 4500 528560326 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781551526195 1551526190 B01F1G67U4 Amazon 6a2b1c3d-5b35-49aa-8c66-320bb3f01d1b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2698295 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Marjara Eisha. Faerie [Libby]. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1255kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1255kB. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:<p>Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood behind, has broken her heart.</p> <p><i>Faerie</i>, a novel for young people, is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyper- imaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia - her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time.</p> <p>Lila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flash back to her childhood in the eighties, growing up in a small town as the overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife - "the most female of all females who found comfort in cooking." <i>Faerie</i> weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. Written with candor and heartbreaking lyricism, <i>Faerie</i> is a plaintive yet ultimately life-affirming love letter to the bold, flawed splendor that is childhood.</p> <p><b>Eisha Marjara</b> has written and directed several award-winning films, including the critically acclaimed NFB docudrama <i>Desperately Seeking Helen</i>. Her latest, <i>House for Sale</i>, has won numerous film festival awards. <i>Faerie</i> is her first novel. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a2b1c3d-5b35-49aa-8c66-320bb3f01d1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a2b1c3d-5b35-49aa-8c66-320bb3f01d1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a2b1c3d-5b35-49aa-8c66-320bb3f01d1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)