They seem to be a way of processing the unimaginable thing that has happened to her. They stay in her room with her, her roommate Sandy, and Sandy's plastic baby Morgan. She writes all of these letters describing her experience in minute detail yet she doesn't send a single one. I never got the feeling she was sugar-coating the way things were or trying to put something over on her reader. And it is this quality that is most appealing. Alone, overweight, and braless, Anna starts writing a series of letters to her best friend Tracy as a way of staying sane despite being surrounded by drug dealers, Satanists, pregnant cheerleaders, oh my! Anna's voice is at times bitter, amused, desperate, and uncertain. Get Well Soon tells the story of Anna Bloom, a depressed teenager whose parents commit her to a mental institution when her panic attacks get in the way of her going to school. I was so grateful they were publishing Long May She Reignthat I grabbed Carpe Diemand Get Well Soon as well because if they're publishing Ellen Emerson White books they not only have superb taste, they deserve my undying loyalty. I came across Julie Halpern's first novel while browsing the offerings over at Feiwel & Friends.
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