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When the truth about her past is disclosedthe effect works like gangbusters.New York Times Book ReviewA girls letters to her best friend reveal two lives derailed by anorexia in this haunting debut thats Laurie Halse Andersons Wintergirls meets The Sixth Sense.Zoe knows she doesnt belong in a hospitalso why is she in oneTwin Birch isnt just any hospital. Its a strange mansion populated by unnerving staff and glassy-eyed patients. Its a place for girls with serious problems skinny, spindly girls who have a penchant for harming themselves.Zoe isnt like them. And she cant figure out why she was sent here. Writing letters to her best friend Elise keep her sane, grounded in the memories of her pastbut mired in them, too. Elise never writes back.Zoe is lost without her, unsure of how to navigate tenuous new friendships and bizarre rules without Elise by her side.