FAERIE: A BOLD YA NOVEL ABOUT A SOUTH ASIAN TEENAGER STRUGGLING WITH ANOREXIA
Book ID/图书代码： 11197515B85121
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Faerie, 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.
Lila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flashback to her childhood in the ’80s, growing up in a small town as an 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." Faerie 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 candour and heartbreaking lyricism,Faerie is a plaintive love letter to the bold, flawed splendour that is childhood.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
就在Lila18岁生日的前几天，她决定结束自己的生命。对成年并远离童年的恐惧感伤透了她的心。这部给年轻读者看的小说讲述了一个想象力超群的女孩迈入成年期的故事。她认为自己是一个半人精灵，并不属于这个用厌食症折磨她的人世。Lila向读者讲述了自己的经历——我们跟随她回到了80年代的童年期，她在一个小镇长大，小时候很胖，是一对旁遮普族移民的后代。她的爸爸是一位学者，她非常崇拜他。她的妈妈是个家庭主妇，是“所有女性中最热爱烹饪的女性。”小说记录了Lila威胁生命的疾病、刚刚萌芽的性意识和她在医院复杂的康复过程以及为此付出的代价。小说语言坦率、抒情、令人心碎，是一封写给大胆、美好的童年的情书。
“我的母亲在我身上看到了她自己，但我却并不这么认为。我想瘦得能够穿上翅膀并跃入精灵世界，在那里做白日梦。那里成熟丰茂，夏天即将来临，也不必想着开启新篇章或回到旧时光。”（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：My mother saw herself in me, but I wanted to hold up a very different mirror. I was going to slim myself into my wings and take a leap of faith into the faerie world where I spent every waking daydream. The circumstances were ripe, summer was on its way, and no time like yesterday to start something new. Or shall I say, to recover something old.
About the Author/作者介绍： Eisha Marjara攥写并执导了多部获奖影片，包括备受赞誉的NFB文献片《疯狂寻找海伦（Desperately Seeking Helen）》和德国-加拿大电影《旅客（The Tourist）》。她最近一部电影《房屋待售（House For Sale）》获得了多个奖项。
Eisha Marjara has written and directed several award-winning films, including the critically acclaimed NFB docudrama Desperately Seeking Helen and the German-Canadian film The Tourist. Her latest film is the multi-award-winning House For Sale.
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